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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>loupaglia - Latest Comments in Ken Schwaber on the Scrum Framework</title><link>http://loupaglia.disqus.com/</link><description>paglia’s thoughts: “one to negative one” and some noise in between</description><atom:link href="https://loupaglia.disqus.com/ken_schwaber_on_the_scrum_framework_correlate/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:20:40 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Ken Schwaber on the Scrum Framework</title><link>http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2008/09/24/ken-schwaber-on-the-scrum-framework/#comment-19254255</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Scrum is an awful practice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In my experience it halves productivity and doubles staff turnover and results in a team comprised exclusively of dictators and submissives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Making people stand for extended periods of time, or a similar uncomfortable physical posture, is known as a 'stress position' and is considered to be torture under International Law.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, any methodology that involves somebody being called 'the Master' belongs in the 18th Century.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I imagine there will be many employment tribunals around scrum in the near future.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">theantiscrum</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:20:40 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>