On his blog Noop.nl, Jurgen Appelo is making a strong case for adapting your software development approach according to the circumstances. He recently wondered why being agile is not about being adaptable and doing whatever it takes to make your project a long-lasting success any more.

Jurgen introduced Scrum into his organization. He didn’t follow every advice given by the agile community; he used the principles he thought to be neccesary for the situation he and his teams are currently in.

And it worked.

In this video chat we discuss his experiences with Scrum and the curse of dogmatic use of “recipes for success” in software development.

He is located a couple of miles away from my home town, so, this is the first ever “Project Shrink On Location” :)