That was the statement i heard going down the escalator at work earlier this week.
“Scrum may be good for some things, but for large scale Oracle development projects, it doesn’t work…”
And I was like.. wtf???.. I have been thinking about this statement for a few days now and I still wonder why shouldn’t scrum work in large scale Oracle projects? anyone got a clue?
I can think of 3 reasons why scrum won’t work:
- You do not know how to do scrum based projects.
- Your team is inexperienced and has no one guiding them.
- You are just not interested in seeing it succeed.
A part from these three, there is no valid reason why a project should fail because of scrum. It’s all based on knowledge and learning from what you previously did. While being interested in and working with agile methology’s there is one thing I’ve learned; It doesn’t fail because of the method, it fails when you have lack of knowledge or just don’t want it to succeed for some reason.
Which of the 3 reasons did the suit belong too I wonder.
