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I'm not over 60 but I'm too old for Scrum. Can anyone over 30 take that Scrum kindergarten serious?

I don't think it's for the type of person that reads HN. I recently asked what a spike was and what the word relates to. I didn't get a clear answer i.e. I don't think anyone properly understood what it meant. I later did some digging - it's basically research. Quite why we have to invent a new word when there's a perfectly good one already I don't know.

I suspect too many people would interpret "research" as (their view of) academic research: no definite goal, no time limit, no constraints. A spike is supposed to be a time-limited investigation of something specific. After that time, either you learned enough to go ahead with implementation, or you didn't, and you have to decide what to do instead.

FWIW, I've worked at a few places that used Scrum (my current employer uses less formal processes), and I and some of my co-workers also read HN. I guess I don't know if we're "the type of person that reads HN", though, whatever that is.

"Scrum" means a large number of different things. Many of them can be taken seriously, some cannot.

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