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As about Scrum + Hermes: Peter Stevens and myself are still looking for ways to put a foot in the door and be able to bring Scrum to Hermes.

Our talk at the FDJP event was quite a sucess, but we noticed, that most of the project managers there do not have any ideas, knowledge about Agile processes.

There has still a lot of awareness building to be done, before some acceptance can be build on a broader basis. Some individuals get it, most others do not. And many of those who see the benefit, do not have the courage to make the first step to change their organisations.

We keep on trying in any case…but unfortunately there is no fast way I can currently see.

Concerning Scrum @ Admin.ch - is there any progress being made on Scrum + Hermes?

I believe though, that there can be an architecture (embodied in a framework), that is very lightweight and used only very carefully selected OSS libs/projects, that should allow for a quick, economic and easy adaptable partial solution to most common application problem spaces (like web apps).

I have built myself at least three frameworks during my past 10 years. Each time it was a learning experience and now I am ready to consolidate that experience, together with the agile values I cherish, to try and build THE lean-mean framework, I always dreamed of. And who knows, maybe it will be even of value to someone else.

I intend only to build a very essential core architecture and will let other decide, what they want to make of it. Be it, that they write extentions to it or integrate it with other OSS components. I will post an entry on the blog about the basic ideas in the near future.

I start my design by designing “How am I gonna declare my business process”, for example I want to declare web applications as forms, then I continue design how the form should be look like so it can be agile form, after I have a clear interfaces, I build the implementations, combination of my own codes and OSS components.

One form of expression does not always apply to other projects, so in one project I have optimally use agile form based design, on the other project I could have projects that requires custom rule based interface to be agile.

That’s how I do it, but apparently for some people they call it madness, building your OWN framework …

what do you think about it ?

I find your points very valuable. Many frameworks start in a nimble and lean fashion, but get subverted over time, because they want to be everybody’s darling. By the time an “Enterprise Edition” of the framework ist released, they become so bloated, that all initially good intentions go over board. - Jiri

I have evaluated most of existing popular frameworks and found nothing fit my requirements, I decided to trash them and write my OWN framework, and find it to be the PERFECT solution for at least my last ten projects… refactorable bottom up, integratable almost with anything, and let me defines the granularity of the interfaces, so I can use different levels of business process abstraction depends on the requirement.

You may wonder how I can come into this conclusion:
1. Existing fameworks has different motives, and it not always the solution, it probably only to seek popularity
2. Existing frameworks must cater so much user base so it could easily loose identity, simplicity and flexibility.

How is this sound to you all ? Am i exxagarating ?