"Scrum shortens planning horizons by limiting batch-sizes to two week sprints. . . Still, because Scrum is a push-based system, it still requires you to do some form of estimation . . . This demand for estimations leads to unproductive and unnecessary estimation meetings."
I actually prefer Kanban over Scrum, but none of this matches my experience at all.
1) People plan multiple sprints ahead in Scrum. Not necessarily the full sequence of tasks, but things like telling a stakeholder which sprint their task will be in.
2) Many people are in a situation that's inherently push-based and requires estimates. Scrum is just a way to achieve that. The author gets snarky in the first paragraph about choosing Scrum vs having it chosen for you, but really . . . most people know full well that Scrum was chosen for them, and that it was chosen for planning purposes. And that they do tasks because other people need them done, not because they had some free time. Heck, the whole project usually exists to serve the needs of others, not the joy of working fast.
3) Even in Kanban, we'll usually have basically the same grooming meeting. That's because the meat of that meeting is sharing information and thoughts about what the upcoming tasks involve and discussing whether and how to break them down into sub-tasks.
I actually prefer Kanban over Scrum, but none of this matches my experience at all.
1) People plan multiple sprints ahead in Scrum. Not necessarily the full sequence of tasks, but things like telling a stakeholder which sprint their task will be in.
2) Many people are in a situation that's inherently push-based and requires estimates. Scrum is just a way to achieve that. The author gets snarky in the first paragraph about choosing Scrum vs having it chosen for you, but really . . . most people know full well that Scrum was chosen for them, and that it was chosen for planning purposes. And that they do tasks because other people need them done, not because they had some free time. Heck, the whole project usually exists to serve the needs of others, not the joy of working fast.
3) Even in Kanban, we'll usually have basically the same grooming meeting. That's because the meat of that meeting is sharing information and thoughts about what the upcoming tasks involve and discussing whether and how to break them down into sub-tasks.