Confessions of a Former Rockstar (Developer)

I recently attended The Lead Dev conference in NYC and saw Jason Lengstorf give a talk on the dangers of “Rockstar Developers” to your team, presumably from his own first-hand experience. Here’s my longer version.

Thanks, Don. I appreciate your insight. I agree that the roles I’ve received are not canonical Scrum and also agree with you about the impossibility of “pure Scrum”… at least I’ve never seen it done.

I also think you’re right on the Product Owner role. That’s something I didn’t talk about, but it’s a critical piece of the…

An article recently made the rounds at work, Reality-Driven Development by Barry Jones, that I made a long thread of comments regarding. I recommend reading his first. I’m going to comment on my experience with Kanban and Scrum and where I feel the strengths and weaknesses lie with each.

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