Dear readers, Long time.
Anyway I'm really into Scrum nowadays,
I was introduced to it during the last year and I immediately got hooked, I implemented a few of the concepts in my team and made everyone use to slightly unusable "Scrum for TeamSystem" template in my organization.
But that is old news. Since then I joined Sela and following my plan to consult in Scrum I took a Scrum course with the one and only Danko and participated in a workshop called Agile Boot camp by Mr. Murin.
So I admit I see Scurm in every shadow and out of every corner.
I guess this is one of the phases you are going through to fully make use of Scrum.
Back in the year 2000, a friend of mine lent me a fantasy book of his. first I struggled with the English (This book is a pure example of how English is exalted from other languages especially the fairly new rediscovered Hebrew), the Author really make the words sing and go live (You should read how he describes food, really makes your mouth water).
After some time I struggled with something different the level of details. On the contrary from other "regular" books which have a few major characters and several secondary characters - This book spans over 7-10 major characters and tens of secondary characters.
Another unique characteristic of this book is that you can never know what will become of your favorite character, it's not an Hollywood movie, when the good guys do mistakes they die just like the bad guys.
Apparently the book was part of a series of what was planned to be a trilogy.
Should I tell you we already got book 4 published and it appears the author has much more to tell then he planned in the beginning (Change is good?).
He now states that he thinks it should take him 7 books to complete all he has to say.
8 years has passed, I still don't know the end, furthermore nobody's except the author doesn't know the end (Please god, protect him from undesirable accidents and Alzheimer).
This is because he haven't yet finished the series.
During this time the author struggled with :
- A dead end approach and was needed to trace back and start all over again.
- He wrote to much so he cut the book in half and published only a part of what he intended.
- A lots of fans who kept nagging him when he will be finished.
Also this author had a status page in his site, which he updated his progress (Visibility).
One of them stated that the next book (No.5) will be ready by the start of 2007.
After this time has passed, he got to the point of "I call you, don't call me" and updated his status, that the book is not done, and he will stop updating the status until it will be ready.
A year has passed and we got a new status!
I quote :
"The problem with doing these updates is that each of them is an attempt to predict the future, and if there's one thing that I have proved beyond a doubt these last few years, it's that I'm very bad at predicting the future, especially when my own work is concerned. I suppose I incline too much toward optimism... "
Predict the future? (Gantt?) this sounds awfully familiar.
So Mr George RR Martin got himself a broken project.
And me? I want to know what is going to happened in the END! so get on and do some writing and release the god damn product but take your time we want it to be excellent.
It's fun to be the customer once in a while isn't it ?
Ariel
P.S You got so far and you want to know which series I'm talking about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Song-Fire-Book/dp/0553573403
and for last note I really recommend you reading this series!
