ESR the wit

I forgot what a wit Eric Raymond can be:

Conway’s law is a well-known fact of life in technology organizations. Eric S. Raymond noted that “[i]f you have four groups working on a compiler, you’ll get a 4-pass compiler”.

From Conway's original:

[O]rganizations [...] are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

Scrum is ...

Scrum is ... complex and completely over the top. That is if it isn't rescued from itself.

I still prefer XP to everything else, that may be the bias of familiarity. Scrum, and anything else agile, still beats the alternatives. To reiterate:

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan