Since Agile became a buzzword (and before that "Extreme Programming!!1!") about 14 years ago, I've never seen it work right.
Since Agile became a buzzword (and before that "Extreme Programming!!1!") about 14 years ago, I've never seen it work right. I've never seen either of these have a net addition to the performance of the team. 2 developers pair programming don't get new features done twice as fast. (though it's great for fixing a bug or transferring knowledge for a particular piece of code.) Daily standups have never been beneficial. I see people here talking about managers not talking during standup. I've never seen that once in the past 10 years that "SCRUM" has been the buzzword. NOT ONCE. I've never seen standups that were only 15 miutes. After being forced to stand for 20-40 minutes each day listening to an air headed project manager drone on during the Standups at Amazon, I vowed I'd had enough. I got tired of having my time wasted and made a rule that if I can't sit down during a meeting, I'm not attending. If you think I'm rambling in the meeting, then you can make me stand up, but I'm never the problem (always the "product manager" or "biz guy" is the problem. Talking seems to be what they think is the purpose of their job.) It's gotten to the point where I associate the word "scrum" in job postings as a red flag. Teams should work asynchronously, all the time. Git lets us code async. Slack and Hipchat let us chat async. Whenever we need to coordinate, we just talk. (which is why you need offices so your talking doesn't bother other people.) Otherwise, everything should be async. A standup is a big old pointless nose-counting exercise. It feels like it comes from the 1950s. And if you're having a daily standup at 10am, then that means I can't start work at noon, can I? So, where is this "flex hours" that everyone thought was such a good perk 10 years ago?
Posted by MCRed on Apr 8, 2015, 9:54 AM
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This is my biggest problem with agents, they constantly defensively code for cases that have no chance of happening and in most cases a p...
I wish there was something like LEAN for biology.
The issue is really the extreme difficulty of programming them, especially for anything sequential (rather than combinatorial).
I probably could have beared with it if it was only limited to programming, but it showing up in creative fields has made me feel all sor...
I hate that I'm in deep enough to know what you mean.
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Since Agile became a buzzword (and before that "Extreme Programming!!1!") about 14 years ago, I've never seen it work right.
Since Agile became a buzzword (and before that "Extreme Programming!!1!") about 14 years ago, I've never seen it work right. I've never seen either of these have a net addition to the performance of the team. 2 developers pair programming don't get new features done twice as fast. (though it's great for fixing a bug or transferring knowledge for a particular piece of code.) Daily standups have never been beneficial. I see people here talking about managers not talking during standup. I've never seen that once in the past 10 years that "SCRUM" has been the buzzword. NOT ONCE. I've never seen standups that were only 15 miutes. After being forced to stand for 20-40 minutes each day listening to an air headed project manager drone on during the Standups at Amazon, I vowed I'd had enough. I got tired of having my time wasted and made a rule that if I can't sit down during a meeting, I'm not attending. If you think I'm rambling in the meeting, then you can make me stand up, but I'm never the problem (always the "product manager" or "biz guy" is the problem. Talking seems to be what they think is the purpose of their job.) It's gotten to the point where I associate the word "scrum" in job postings as a red flag. Teams should work asynchronously, all the time. Git lets us code async. Slack and Hipchat let us chat async. Whenever we need to coordinate, we just talk. (which is why you need offices so your talking doesn't bother other people.) Otherwise, everything should be async. A standup is a big old pointless nose-counting exercise. It feels like it comes from the 1950s. And if you're having a daily standup at 10am, then that means I can't start work at noon, can I? So, where is this "flex hours" that everyone thought was such a good perk 10 years ago?
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