project management

Project Management, I will freely admit, is a discipline that I do not entirely understand. It seems like it would be easy enough: collect requirements, keep track of the details of progress made against said goals, identify problems hopefully before they come up, and chart a course through problems when they do arise. And, yet, project management remains mercurial and mysterious. Hell, I think most Project Managers would find it hard pressed to fully articulate what leads to successful project management vs. unsuccessful project management.

So, yeah, we've been trying to do this scrum thing. I'll cut to the chase and piss off some libertarians at the same time. Basically it's like this: scrum is like libertarianism; it's a great way to to live your life, but it just doesn't scale well. The biggest problem I see is this: for a team of 3-5 a number of the practices of scrum make sense. Make a list of what needs to be done for the next 2-3 weeks. Great idea! Meet every day for 15 minutes to make sure you're on track. Ok! Well, every day seems a bit much, but I can deal.