> CTO, who demands everybody to follow a strict process. Anything you want to work on needs to be prioritised in a refinement session. And that’s literally anyt

> CTO, who demands everybody to follow a strict process. Anything you want to work on needs to be prioritised in a refinement session. And that’s literally anything - doesn’t matter if it would take 1 minute, hour or a day. I’ve had a couple of jobs before, but never anything that restrictive (even at big-corps). Sounds like my big company. They perfected the art of removing what little value agile (in the true original sense) added and replace it with "waterfall with extra steps". In terms of work assigned, it goes to a team level and then typically the leads/seniors like myself take the harder tickets (or the ones we know will go long/cause problems because frankly it's harder to shout at us) and the rest is divided out by the other team members depending on who feels like doing what (unless no-one picks something up that is important I generally stay out of it, it gives them some autonomy in an environment that honestly has little). The whole process is hilariously (and I mean genuinely it makes me laugh) Byzantine. It is also entirely the reason I'm looking for another job (combined with no remote in a global pandemic when I could do my job remote). Honestly, it is simply poor management - they can't handle the flexibility of running large teams nor can they bring themselves to delegate the running of smaller teams so they impose a "One size fits no-body, was this even made for humans?" process in the hope that will save them. It never does but they then assume the problem is the process and change it again - so often in fact that we on the 7th I think since I've been with the company - half our communication is "but you changed X from Foo to Bar on Jira, under the new process it needs to be Fizz before it can go to Foo" type stuff.