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Some 10 years ago I attended a purportedly OO development conference which was by that time taken over by agile crowd. It was full of nice, chatty and energetic
by varjag 9y ago
Some 10 years ago I attended a purportedly OO development conference which was by that time taken over by agile crowd. It was full of nice, chatty and energetic people.
I was lost. It felt like slipping through a crack in the Universe, Sliders-style, into reality where you can't understand people discussing the things you do for years. There were few other developers attending, seemingly just as startled by all this.
The whole thing ended with some Agile activity for all attendants which I can best describe as a mix of kindergarten class and Baptist sermon. I could not comprehend the intent, the procedure and the desired outcome (and whether it was achieved).
- emodendroket 9y agoOh, you know, I'd forgotten about the paper airplanes and pasta sculptures.
- maxxxxx 9y agoThat's how I felt when I attended my Scrum Master training. There was almost nobody in there who actually wrote code. The discussions were very abstract and about situations I had never encountered in work life.
- rukuu001 9y agoCouple points re this. People attending SM training are often just middle managers learning enough to know WTF their SMs and PMs are talking about in meetings. Also, there's no requirement for SMs to be coders, it's a role a lot of BAs take on. Some experience in software development context is desirable tho. I found a lot of my SM training relateable to real life. My team went crazy for planning poker because it got a lot of assumptions out early. Standups were impossible because some people started at 1pm, others finished at 4pm. I see Scrum as a bag of tools to apply to teams. Some work, some don't.