Scrum and Web Hooks
Earlier this evening I joined the gathering around Ken Schwaber and listened to his both interesting and entertaining anecdotes. One of my favorites was about a manager who had just beed introduced to the concept of Scrum. He was enlightened by the idea, yet he demonstrated that he didn’t really get the point by asking how he could make sure that his team was actually doing Scrum right and that he would probably have to go over to the team and check if everyone was on the path of Scrum.
That anecdote somehow reminded me of what I read and heard about Web Hooks. Instead of polling every n seconds if some data is available yet/asking the developers if a feature is ready, you should rely on the application you are waiting for to inform you about data being available/rely on the developers telling you when they are done. Not only does this prevent management from draining precious time from developers, it also removes a very tedious task from their list and therefore even gives them some more spare time for doing something really useful.
In this spirit: Web Hooks and Scrum for the win!
( Here is more about the scrum master meeting on Tim’s blog )
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