How Soggy is your Scrum?
TLDR: Soggyscrum.com is a checklist to test your scrum team
I have launched a website to help scrum teams identify the bad smells which lead to an unholy mishmash of scrum and waterfall methodologies. It’s called soggyscrum.com
In any industry, it’s common for companies to put their own spin on scrum in order to integrate into their pipeline. I have experienced this interpretation of scrum at one stage of my career, and I had no clue why companies made the move from good old waterfall dev. “Hey!” I thought. “This scrum stuff is pretty average. I just want to know my task. Why do we stand up every day? What’s the point?”
And then I got training for a Scrum Master certification. And suddenly, everything made sense.
It turns out that unless you are prepared to change your team to fit scrum, scrum will not work for you at all. It’s an all or nothing deal and it requires the removal of those rolling tasks and those 20 man standups. There’s a lot of changes to make – and the first step is to know what’s wrong.
I have been through this, and I can tell you that the results have been *staggering*. Morale, speed, ideas, efficency! All of this is better! And I want them to be better for you too.
That is why I made soggyscrum.com.
And because I loved the name when I read it in gamasutra’s article on game industry lingo.
So what is it?
Soggyscrum is a quick test you can take to see how soggy your scrum is. How much waterfall is left in your scrum team. Styled after the epic awesome XKCD (love you!), it’ll give you a soggy percentage factor. I’ve also written up a list of feedback for people who have specific issues with the team – specifically with Standups, The Team and The Production
And to show I’m not pulling punches, here’s my score:
Closing in on perfection!
