I'm just wondering if anyone else has been in this situation and how you deal with it.
I've recently started a contract with one of the big players supplying software services to the public sector.
Ostensibly, I was brought on board as part of a drive to throw in more development resources to meet a tight deadline.
The reality of the situation seems to be that dev teams are too big and the workloads assigned in each sprint more suitable for teams half the size I'm working in.
The net result of this is that development tasks are small and tend to overlap resulting in one person's work being impacted by something somebody else is doing at the same time. In fact, this has been a constant theme in the 4 weeks I've been here and consequently it's impossible to gain any traction as I keep finding that either somebody else's work supercedes mine meaning I've just wasted my time and effort or I have to take time out to make fixes to get stuff working because the goalposts have shifted so much since I started working on it.
Everything's in a complete state of flux in other words. Is this what Agile is all about? I feel like I'm being pulled from pillar to post all day long.
Anyway, I'm not going to be a turkey voting for Christmas but I need to make this work because every day here is like having your teeth pulled.
I've recently started a contract with one of the big players supplying software services to the public sector.
Ostensibly, I was brought on board as part of a drive to throw in more development resources to meet a tight deadline.
The reality of the situation seems to be that dev teams are too big and the workloads assigned in each sprint more suitable for teams half the size I'm working in.
The net result of this is that development tasks are small and tend to overlap resulting in one person's work being impacted by something somebody else is doing at the same time. In fact, this has been a constant theme in the 4 weeks I've been here and consequently it's impossible to gain any traction as I keep finding that either somebody else's work supercedes mine meaning I've just wasted my time and effort or I have to take time out to make fixes to get stuff working because the goalposts have shifted so much since I started working on it.
Everything's in a complete state of flux in other words. Is this what Agile is all about? I feel like I'm being pulled from pillar to post all day long.
Anyway, I'm not going to be a turkey voting for Christmas but I need to make this work because every day here is like having your teeth pulled.
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