Teamwork & Cooperation
On Teamwork
A small team of committed coworkers
We come as a team
Hand and brain chess
Serendipity
The cubicle
Viability, usablity, feasibility
Intuition and systems
Political chains of influence
Instruments of cooperation
Rapport
The power of One
Individuals matter
Design Leadership Truisms
The Small Group
Mutual appreciation
Software that nobody wants
The 'date scrum' anti-pattern
Date Scrum is an R&D pattern where developers are asked to estimate software project requirements upfront for the entirety of the project. After the project is green lighted and the budget is set based on the final estimates, the team then holds daily scrums to status and manage risk as they “iterate” the solution toward the release date. To some, this approach is described as doing Waterfall in sprints.
The fundamental problem with Date Scrum is that the team is de-focused from discovering the best solution. Instead they are heavily focused on delivering Something™ by the Date™. Engineers are problem solvers, and if the primary problem becomes delivering Something™ that will pass QA by the Date™, they will, with enough pressure, solve that exact problem.