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Yep. If everyone’s updating issues in the ITS, it’s easy to plan a sprint. Priorities are mostly already assigned and the sprint planning meeting should be more
by dave_sullivan 8y ago
Yep. If everyone’s updating issues in the ITS, it’s easy to plan a sprint. Priorities are mostly already assigned and the sprint planning meeting should be more of a sanity check.
Engineers are only out of the loop insofar as they have fewer meetings where they’re sitting around waiting for their turn to speak. If they want to weigh in, they should, and nobody is stopping them.
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- sailfast 8y agoSo is the burnout because you’re just grinding all the time on tightly defined stories and you feel like there is no room to slow down? Legitimately curious and I appreciate you writing this up and putting it out there.
- dave_sullivan 8y agoIt's not even tightly defined stories, it's just teams working too much with no downtime, no time to slow down and catch your breath. There are always more things to do than time to do them, so unless lines are drawn the default is perpetual overwork. Many seem to freak out at the concept of working less. Yet the 40 hour work week was considered radical at one point. Googles 80% time is by most accounts not a real thing, but it's a start. I'm at 75% time here. Then there's 996 if you want to go the opposite direction.