It can be argued that Scrum is the compromise Beck and Cooper had such trouble reaching in the following interview. As the original website where this was posted no longer exists, I copied the contents from the Internet Archives and reformatted it to improve the reading experience.

The following is my response to Ewan Valentine’s blog post “How to never complete anything” that I discovered on Hacker News. Once again, I ask for people’s indulgence for posting a reply on my own blog rather than in the Hacker News comments. I find writing on my own blog a bit easier than wading into the surf that is the sea of many perspectives.