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Throwback Thursday: Scope creep

ComputerWorld IT Management

This company decides that it needs a better way of managing its software development, reports an IT pilot fish there. “We The new methodology is very nice, complete with online components, handbooks and a very active national presence. And it quickly demonstrates its value for software projects.

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Scrumfall: When Agile becomes Waterfall by another name

CIO Business Intelligence

With Waterfall methods masquerading as Scrum — call it Scrumfall — businesses are reasserting top-down micromanagement, fortifying silos, fettering flexibility, and commoditizing software engineers as mere cogs cranking out code. Necessary because of the inherent complexity and indeterminacy of software engineering.

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