Scrum puts "feel good" limits around the unknown qualities of time-to-complete and "divide and conquer"
You still don't really know when it will be ready, but you now have talking points with management about a) whats been done and b) how complex it is. This builds belief: Belief there will be a solution, and Belief you can find it.
Nothing not said better by others here, but I say this as a party who was dragged kicking and screaming into the process to be an agile product manager, hated it, and got out. I totally "get" why people want this. It's very rare to be a Bell Labs, or Xerox Parc, and have pretty much complete freedom to spend budget and deliver an outcome when it's ready.
I also have worked on large s/w projects which cost $16m to fail to work, and $60m in lawsuits out the other side. I know that the alternative (a massive proscriptive playbook of minute details of functions, UML, flowcharts, you-name-it) exists and works, or not (depending on your point of view).
Really? I think scrum was the wrong name. The process itself, is fine. Talking to your co-workers builds a sense of purpose and direction.
You still don't really know when it will be ready, but you now have talking points with management about a) whats been done and b) how complex it is. This builds belief: Belief there will be a solution, and Belief you can find it.
Nothing not said better by others here, but I say this as a party who was dragged kicking and screaming into the process to be an agile product manager, hated it, and got out. I totally "get" why people want this. It's very rare to be a Bell Labs, or Xerox Parc, and have pretty much complete freedom to spend budget and deliver an outcome when it's ready.
I also have worked on large s/w projects which cost $16m to fail to work, and $60m in lawsuits out the other side. I know that the alternative (a massive proscriptive playbook of minute details of functions, UML, flowcharts, you-name-it) exists and works, or not (depending on your point of view).
Really? I think scrum was the wrong name. The process itself, is fine. Talking to your co-workers builds a sense of purpose and direction.