I am glad to see developers here also hate Agile, as a BA/PM hate it with passion, now I run away when agents mention Agile to me.... my last project daily grind: 8:30 Stand up with India, end up explaining for the 1000's time what they were supposed to do this sprint, not to mention backlog items. 9:00 So many issues and queries from the stand up, so I spend 30 minute with dev lead explaining going through requirements, then 30 min with Database architect from India (Of course at the end I end up designing his databases and entity relationship for him), then 30 minutes with Test lead, they needed to explain to me why they couldn't test previous sprint, they needed me to explain requirements and flows all over AGAIN ... even though I spent days explaining it to Dev and them, but dev just can't be bothered to speak to the testers who sit next to him in India !!
Then 30 min or more meeting with business for next sprint requirements, then 30 minutes with Program management updating progress, then an hour or so speaking to project members reporting to me in London, after 2pm then am free to do my work, which is checking last sprint test results, investigating errors, preparing next sprint requirements, and designing next test cycle cases... by around 8pm am dead and I didn't even get to have a lunch break...
End of the week, big status report, of course most sprint end up with more items on the backlog than actually delivered !
And this wasn't my first Agile project, almost all of them end up in this mess...
Unless am starving I wont take a role involving Agile ever again !!
Then 30 min or more meeting with business for next sprint requirements, then 30 minutes with Program management updating progress, then an hour or so speaking to project members reporting to me in London, after 2pm then am free to do my work, which is checking last sprint test results, investigating errors, preparing next sprint requirements, and designing next test cycle cases... by around 8pm am dead and I didn't even get to have a lunch break...
End of the week, big status report, of course most sprint end up with more items on the backlog than actually delivered !
And this wasn't my first Agile project, almost all of them end up in this mess...
Unless am starving I wont take a role involving Agile ever again !!
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