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Scrum is the absolute minimum amount of process that can be imposed on an organization that is process-averse. That you find it too rigid makes you less of a cowboy and more of a wildman. (I might have said wild indian to carry on the cowboy motif, but that's not politically correct).
If you let customers change horses in the middle of a two-week sprint, you are embracing a degree of chaos that probably hurts your profit as a consultant, or needlessly raises costs to your customers. I bet this is not your friend's first rodeo (Yee-hah! More cowboy metaphors). His experience says this is a bad way of working. That's certainly what I would say.
More discipline is called for. It's better for you, better for your partner, and better for your customers.
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Most of my clients don't have enough work to plan in two week sprints anyway.
It would be a sprint for multiple customers.
So let's say the sprint starts on Monday, a customer (who may or may not have work in the current sprint) calls on Tuesday, and I have to tell him they'll have it at the end of the next sprint (four weeks from now)?
That's a recipe for losing clients.
There's a lot less than scrum that can still count as a process.
SeattleC++ wrote: His experience says this is a bad way of working. That's certainly what I would say.
I'm actually more experienced than him in pretty much every way possible (number of jobs, time in the field, methodologies used, etc.), but he is by far the better front-end programmer.
He's never done anything else than scrum, I have, and that's probably why he's having trouble adapting.
And in my experience, I'm saying everything we do besides what we're doing now is absolute overkill as far as work planning goes.
Although I'm now making sure his tasks are a bit less open for interpretation, some people need a bit more management and I accept and respect that.
So, instead of "can you start with whatever form and fix it like we said last month, tell me when it's done." I'm now saying "can you make sure fields x and y on form z are positioned like a and b and I want it by the end of the week." (this is an example, not a literal conversation, before people start making assumptions based on this too).
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I've mostly worked on multi-man-year projects. It's hard for me to imagine a whole project that takes less than a week, but requires iteration and needs more than one worker. You have to do what works for you, and sprints are apparently not part of it.
Your partner was suffering from a need for a more concrete design to grind on, and you have learned to provide it, which is good.
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SeattleC++ wrote: It's hard for me to imagine a whole project that takes less than a week
More like tasks than projects (or tasks that are part of an ongoing project, if you like).
The tasks usually don't require more than one worker, it's just that I'm not a (graphic) designer so those aren't tasks I can do myself.
So this guy goes from a full scrum team from another employer to a task here and a task there for me.
Maybe it's good to mention he doesn't work for me full time, but a few hours a week.
I'm getting a full time employee later this year, will probably switch to a more scrum/kanban approach when that time arrives.
It still won't be a full fledged project team, but hopefully getting there in the next two years or so 
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Everybody hates SCRUM. I do, too. But I think, the larger the team and the more innovative the project, the more SCRUM you need. Unfortunately! Haven't seen anything better for teams of 5-8 or more people yet.
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If everybody hated it we'd be doing something else by now.
It's true lots of people don't like it, especially the overhead, but there are still many people who follow scrum religiously.
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With "everybody" I meant every developer. The religious people are usually managers. 
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That's a challenge. In your shoes I would look for parts of the work which can be compartmentalised and ask him to work on them. That means he can work his way and you in your way.
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yep, the wife got 4 yesterday for the family.
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Unfortunately too accurate. Too many people get the PCR test too soon, so they test negative and then come down with COVID. The antigen test is useless unless you've already been sick.
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That would make much more sense than what they do now...
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I have always wondered what purpose self tests like for COVID and sugar levels serve. I do not think medical professionals care about the results from those and hence the question - why do these exist?
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In theory they identify Covid-positive cases before they infect others - before symptoms develop.
And that means infectious people can isolate earlier, reducing the spread of the disease.
Reporting results to a central authority means that people who have already been in close contact get told earlier and can get tested / isolated before they start infecting others as well.
That's the theory: in practice it depends on people to do them properly, report them always and accurately, and isolate when they get a positive result. Which I'm betting doesn't happen in many cases, particularly if you play tennis at the highest level the pub is open.
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OriginalGriff wrote: In theory they ...
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." - (author in dispute) 
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dan!sh wrote: self tests like for COVID and sugar levels
You chose a poor example.
Monitoring insulin and sugar levels is essential for diabetics to know how much insulin to inject, as both too little and too much can lead to life-threatening results. Doctors might not be interested in all readings, but they certainly will be interested if one or the other changes without a corresponding change in diet or other factors.
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I am an insulin dependent diabetic and I can tell you that I have skipped testing myself on many occasions. Not recommended, but it actually occurs a lot with diabetics like me.
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As you say, it's not recommended. But if your daily diet etc. doesn't change much, you may be able to get away with it for a while. The danger is that you may miss changes in your medical condition because you didn't do the tests.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Bascially what OG already said plus the fact that you can get yourself a short while of security that you are not infected, nearly dead or whatever.
I mean for sugar level tests as another example, they do at least tell you that your current level is either good or bad, so you can react before the professional has to take actions and measure how bad your level is.
There are so many medical self-care things, just because we don't have enough professionals to do all the work for us
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When you say Sugar levels, I assume you mean Serum Glucose? (HbA1c)
After losing over 100lbs, I can tell you that I still do these tests almost daily!
the understanding of how much sugar we have in our blood is important.
Obesity and Diabetes are not only co-morbidities to Covid, they are the basis of about 60% of ALL medical costs. Most blindness comes from T2D (Type 2 Diabetes). So do most foot/leg amputations.
I believe your blood can hold a few teaspoons of sugar to fuel your entire body.
And drinking a can of soda provides like 11 teaspoons all at once. Creating an insidious loop of storing energy, to give you energy. Add the Salt+Sugar+Acid, which clears your palette and makes it "hyper-palatable" (meaning you don't really get tired of drinking it). Finally, sugar and caffeine are both addictive.
So, the "sugar" tests matter. But, IMO, the average doctor doesn't understand how much, and where the fixes get applied (because they study it with a focus on Prescribing Drugs).
T2D is "Diet Induced Diabetes". And can be resolved by fixing the diet! (Or by taking drugs that make you fatter and sicker over time). ONLY 1 of those is good for the patient, the other is good for the food industry, the doctor, the pharmacy, and the drug company.
You decide where the moral hazard lies.
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Does that also mean that MS is responsible for their care and feeding? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Yes, but just wait until you see the monthly subscription charge on "Baby 365".
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