SCRUM

[eek]

Documentation is always out of date including the nice diagrams people draw.

It's better than here is what we think is the live code, good luck. Which is what the poor sod who replaces me will get.

 

[Supply and Command]

What people forget about standups is that you are not reporting to anyone - you are making a commitment to the rest of the team .

A distortion of reality? The team isn't employing each other.

I attended an interview last week to join an agile team, and the scrum master kept doing this routine where he would raise his voice, furrow his eyebrows and try to intimidate me.

As a Londoner, I have become impervious to intimidation. You can shout and swear at me and I won't even blink.

Clearly this scrum master was just looking for people he could intimidate, and that was reflected by the other developers I met there who were all these meek little mice.

Don't get me wrong, I actually quite like some of the logistical improvements that come with Agile, like clearly defined tasks and more emphasis on testing.

But the culture of Agile has become pretty ugly, like some weird mini-dictatorship

 

[aussielong]

A distortion of reality? The team isn't employing each other.

I attended an interview last week to join an agile team, and the scrum master kept doing this routine where he would raise his voice, furrow his eyebrows and try to intimidate me.

As a Londoner, I have become impervious to intimidation. You can shout and swear at me and I won't even blink.

Clearly this scrum master was just looking for people he could intimidate, and that was reflected by the other developers I met there who were all these meek little mice.

Don't get me wrong, I actually quite like some of the logistical improvements that come with Agile, like clearly defined tasks and more emphasis on testing.

But the culture of Agile has become pretty ugly, like some weird mini-dictatorship

It's money for old rope really. It's taking development back to how we all learned it.. Trial and error.

 

[SueEllen]

As a Londoner, I have become impervious to intimidation. You can shout and swear at me and I won't even blink.

Ahhh now you tell me where I've been going wrong for years - I'm suppose to be intimidated.

Being brought up in London if someone gives me tulip I ignore them until I'm p*ssed off, and being pissed off may not have anything to do with the idiot p*ssing me off.

 

[doodab]

NASA put a man on the moon using "antiquated" project management techniques on time and on budget.

Today using Agile that would be impossible,

They also had a budget of $25 billion.

 

[BlasterBates]

They also had a budget of $25 billion.

So did the Russians but they were using SCRUM.

 

[doodab]

So did the Russians but they were using SCRUM.

Which gave them an early lead and technology they still use today. The Americans use it too if they want to visit the ISS.

 

[BlasterBates]

Which is the point... with scrum you can implement a few little features.

But if you want to put a man on the moon you can't.

 

[tomtomagain]

I wonder what methodology Elon Musk uses in his companies?

Do you think he's an agile or waterfall type of guy?

 

[minestrone]

It makes me cringe when agents start asking "can you do agile" "tell me about your agile experience"

It is soul destroying that this is now seen as a skill and further to that a skill that is highly sought after and one that is more valuable that skills that are necessary to actually do the job.