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Apparently it came and went and I never understood what it was.

My team meets regularly are we scrumming? We ship quickly and iteratively, are we agile?

Scrum and Agile are like Monads, no one really knows what they are.

What don't you get about a monad in X is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors of X, with product × replaced by composition of endofunctors and unit set by the identity endofunctor.

Monads are when you have more than a single nad... /s

Yes, but you're not "Scrumming" and "Agile" with capital letters. And that's a good thing, because then you wouldn't be "agile" anymore.

I actually like Scrum, but holding onto it too tightly is a big mistake, IMO.

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