Comment by intelVISA
Agile's one of the best things to happen to software in a way: it's good to know your competitors are stuck in ceremonies, arguing over story points.
Agile's one of the best things to happen to software in a way: it's good to know your competitors are stuck in ceremonies, arguing over story points.
Daily scrum, sprint planning, retrospective and review are ceremonies, and they are totally mentioned in the guide.
The guide also mentions the backlog refinement: “ This is an ongoing activity to add details, such as a description, order, and size.” It’s true that scrum doesn’t directly mention story points but tell me whether story points or t-shirt sizing aren’t the two most common ways to size a story.
> Daily scrum, sprint planning, retrospective and review are ceremonies, and they are totally mentioned in the guide.
Those are "Events", activities to support development work. Unless you mean programming, testing, discussions, code reviews, etc are ceremonies as well?
> It’s true that scrum doesn’t directly mention story points but tell me whether story points or t-shirt sizing aren’t the two most common ways to size a story.
Borrowing your own words: "...story points aren’t in any way mandated by the..." Scrum Guide.
One of my favorite responses to criticism was Dan Abramov telling people if Redux doesn't work for them, don't use it!
Keep what works for you, leave what doesn't.
Looks like you’re talking about Scrum. Ceremonies and story points aren’t in any way mandated by the Agile manifesto.