I don't know man. For the past 6 months we went with approach "Fuck scrum, let's just work". It didn't go well. We were really disorganized, everyone going their own direction, things being overlooked, ...

When a new colleague joined recently, he suggested taking more structured (scrum-like) approach. Things improved immediately.

Like I don't know how you want to call it - scrum, kanban, whatever, I don't care. But you need some structure in your team and you need some meetings where you talk about status, about looking back at things, about plans for next weeks, ...

[–] Unleaded8163@fedia.io 40 points 4 days ago (9 children)

My only requirement for team processes is that they be mostly up to the team. Absolutely some type of structure is needed. If something isn't working for the team, they need to have agency to address that, whether it means adding, removing, or changing something.

[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

This is what’s most important. Allow for experimentation!

What works well for one team might not work well for your team. What worked well for your team 1 year ago might no longer be what you need now.

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