I had encountered the ideas behind scrum before the class*, although that was the first time I had really gotten to work with it. Glad to say that although the professor loves scrum methods and certainly expected the students to learn the terms, he wasn’t a glassy-eyed zealot about it when it came down to implementation time. I was able to look back on client projects and some development work I’d done with other teams and saw places where the ideas would have been very useful, but yeah, not being a fundie about it seems the best course of action! (It can actually be good to be an “older” student sometimes - I can actually see how much of this stuff can actually be applied.)
(* It was a second level SE class wherein the entire class worked on a project for a real world employee. I was part of the team that continued the work over the Summer and it was picked up by the next two classes to continue development. I’m really happy to say that it’s now being used by the emergency management office in SE Wisconsin, with plans to see if it can be used in the rest of the state. This is one of those projects where I’m glad to point to it and say “I helped make that!”)
