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I'm not sure how much of what I have seen is reflective of global or even national trends, but here's what I think. The cargo cult of pseudo-agile development
by yarg 8y ago
I'm not sure how much of what I have seen is reflective of global or even national trends, but here's what I think.
The cargo cult of pseudo-agile development is strong here. You will have long tedious meetings to discuss things that have no tangible link to anything that you're working on. Then you'll do it again tomorrow.
There're management hierarchies, but no real technical hierarchies. Ascendancy to higher technical positions requires the go-ahead from people who don't understand what people in technical positions actually do.
It might just be the companies that I've worked for, but I'm personally at the point where I just want to quit this country.
- RantyDave 8y agoI've had 99% good experiences with Agile in NZ. We meet to discuss what work we should do - this strikes me as an entirely relevant question. Management hierarchies? Yup. Ascendency of the clueless? Oh shit yes. But, really, I don't think it's any different anywhere else.
- moving2nz 8y agoAre there (m)any engineering-led companies in NZ then? Thinking Uber, Netflix... where the management have technical backgrounds themselves or at least engineers have more power to influence decisions (technical and otherwise). Where software development is part of the core culture of the company rather than just another department, so to speak. The cargo cult is in most places, unfortunately, though I wonder if "pseudo-agile" is on the way out. I think people have long since caught on that the term "agile" really is mostly used as a buzzword, so perhaps pseudo-agile for the sake of appearing agile might get less popular.