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Pah, I've not seen Agile cause burnout at all. Far from it, the way sprints become long slow walks and stories move from one sprint to the next, at the altar of
by rutthenut 8y ago
Pah, I've not seen Agile cause burnout at all. Far from it, the way sprints become long slow walks and stories move from one sprint to the next, at the altar of 'Agile' and not 'Delivery', developers appear to be under way less pressure than in older forms of project management. With, you know, deadlines...
- commandlinefan 8y agoWell, sort of by definition, if you're doing "agile" and it's causing burnout, you're not "doing it right", but that seems to be the crux of the problem - every place I've ever worked that has tried to adopt a mindset of actual agility has almost immediately fallen back into the authoritarian command-and-control centralized decision management style that dictators prefer: "tell me everything that you're going to do and exactly how long it's going to take and then I'll argue with you that it shouldn't take that long and blame you when it takes longer".