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managers like it. control. results. evaluation. they get to treat programmers like laborers. programmers don't really have anything to gain with it. what surpri

• dasmoth 10y ago
  >>> what surprises me, is that sometimes programmers ask for it. it illustrates how strong the desire is to follow the latest trend. While I'm far from a Scrum fan, it's not necessarily the worst thing in the world. For instance, it's probably better than "just do what the project manager says", especially if he tends towards micromanagement. And double-especially for people who thrive in group discussions but have trouble managing 1:1s. I suspect the trades also look different depending on level of experience. Scrum, at least in some incarnations, tends to be quite egalitarian, so I can see it appealing to more junior devs in environments where they feel the seniors get to do all the interesting stuff.
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• xemdetia 10y ago
  If you have a management team that is very weak when it comes to planning agile does help a lot allowing the world of actual work estimates to enter the equation, or in the sprint structure you can broach the question 'what gets bumped to do this?' If a management team has an endless leash they just stack a thousand different arbitrary pieces in a pile, call it a release and set a deadline. Using agile enforces a workflow for short term planning where one didn't exist.