Like many of you, I have always believed
that scrum works fine anywhere. I had this project of mine where in the
contract was fixed price and was aggressively bid too. This meant that there is
a wafer thin profitability and not much chances to experiment and allow the
team to take control. Scrum is effective framework for product development and
for T&M contracts. Unfortunately it also brings to table certain challenges
like little bit further rampup time, employee first approach, time where
nothing should be planned for including the planning and retrospective
timeslots. It required time for team to self organize and fixed price projects
are almost always constrainted in time too. When it comes to profitability vs
anything else, scrum loses out in fixed price projects.
