(I originally posted this on ScrumDevelopment. A couple
people suggested posting here. --mj)

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I just went to a London XP pub night and met with a hardcore
XP guy who claims to dislike Scrum. This wouldn't be notable
except that it's happened before.

I queried him on what practices he found useful, and it
sounded a lot like Scrum to me, plus the engineering
practices we usually recommend learning ASAP to
avoid technical debt: (TDD, refactoring, continuous
integration, pair programming....). He agreed that
many teams fail to adopt these practices without
a full-time mentor, learning them incrementally
makes sense, and that Scrum is often the path
people take to discover this.

He also agreed with everything we've been
talking about on this group: the importance of
story "done" rather than task hours expended,
getting the customer in the loop, fixed iterations,
retrospectives.... I really couldn't find any
contradiction with Scrum.

As I see it, Scrum is XP's biggest ally. So where
is this resentment coming from?


--mj