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STOP USING SCRUM! Especially if you're a Startup - There's a better alternative ✈️

Scrum is almost 30 years old!

Think about that for a second - what was considered "agile" in 1994 isn't necessarily agile today.

In fact - by the very definition of what "agile" means, it's not!

Yet, Scrum still seems to be the preferred goto for managing small software teams - especially adopted by large organizations.

Maybe it's just me!
I've seen project after project being butchered by Scrum for the past 10 years now.

Stand-ups that drag on for way more than 15 minutes and developers who take turn justifying their time for the manager while the rest of the team zones out.

Retrospective meetings where people repeat the same things over and over (perhaps slightly rephrased).

Sprint planning sessions that consist of mostly arguing about the tasks, with very little actual planning done as a consequence.
(Some teams even add extra ambiguity in form of story points and fibonacci, just to make it extra fun 🥴)


I'm the Founder and CEO of a startup now, and I'm done with Scrum!
My Co-Founder and I sat down, cut our entire management process down to the bone and came up with something way better!

We call it Flights ✈️

Yes! I'm very serious here!
We did our own, small and super custom, agile framework, and it works SO well, that we want to share it with you 🤩

Watch this short YouTube video to get a sense of how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCShsesxRZA

And then check out the guidelines - or the "Flight Manual" as we call it:
https://simonhoiberg.medium.com/the-flight-manual-9e1aedd04fbf

Let me hear what you think 🤩
I'm very curious about it!

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on June 24, 2021
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