Agile - at what point do you just tell someone to take a hike?

[Gumbo Robot]

At no point do I tell someone to take a hike if, all or the majority of the below are true:

1. The rate is good
2. The location is an easy commute
3. The client eatery is good
4. The women in the office are exceptional eye candy and / or desparate nymphos
5. The chances of renewal is good

I just suck it up, make suggestions on how to improve the process, smile, nod, fetch the team coffees.

1) Debatable but not bad for the SW.
2)45 minute drive
3) My car
4)All blokes
5)Probably not after this morning

[NibblyPig]

I'd settle for anything resembling 4.

It's married & munting here

[vetran]

At no point do I tell someone to take a hike if, all or the majority of the below are true:

1. The rate is good
2. The location is an easy commute
3. The client eatery is good
4. The women in the office are high maintenance and will make my life hell
5. The chances of renewal is good

I just suck it up, make suggestions on how to improve the process, smile, nod, fetch the team coffees.

FTFY

[LondonManc]

FTFY

Quite married life vs getting involved with staff? A Fleshlight would no doubt be a better investment.

[DimPrawn]

Quite married life vs getting involved with staff? A Fleshlight would no doubt be a better investment.

Depends who you're married to. Ask BP if you're not sure what I'm talking about.

[LondonManc]

Depends who you're married to. Ask BP if you're not sure what I'm talking about.

BP would struggle to remember who he's married to in all fairness.

[SueEllen]

I have no issues with demos. It's just the way each team member has to demo the bits they've been responsible for.

It's infantilising.....

It's an attempt to show who has done no work.

Any PM or product owner with a bit of sense will realise that some work cannot be demonstrated and doing it that way extends the meeting.

In the Sprint Retrospective indicate this is the problem with doing the demo like now.

[WTFH]

Appoint a new scrum master then declare yourself a union man, not league, so the whole thing just isn't right.

[quackhandle]

Well I just have, kind of...

They have a flavour of sprint retrospective here where we all have to come to the front of the class and show teacher what we've been doing for the last 2 weeks.

There are 5 of us, we all know how it's supposed to work - one person can do the demo rather than a game of musical chairs just so I can demo a combo box FFS.

Oh dear, not expecting a renewal here - but there's only so much of this nonsense I can take!

It can seem very school day like. I've done my best to stay out of Agile sprints etc, as I've argued my work isn't relevant. (It may well be but the ones holding the sprints know as much Agile as me so usually they are fine with it).

qh

[LondonManc]

It's an attempt to show who has done no work.

Any PM or product owner with a bit of sense will realise that some work cannot be demonstrated and doing it that way extends the meeting.

In the Sprint Retrospective indicate this is the problem with doing the demo like now.

Please spend an hour a day telling us why you're 14% less productive than when you had this other hour to actually do work in.