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Anybody else a infrastructure engineer and do Agile? We do and I just don't think it fits for our work. Maybe it's good for development but our work rarely fit
by apple4ever 6y ago
Anybody else a infrastructure engineer and do Agile?
We do and I just don't think it fits for our work. Maybe it's good for development but our work rarely fits within in a sprint (which is a week for us which I think makes it worse).
And I cannot stand stand ups. They feel like a waste of time. I'd much rather do two meetings a week to catch up on things and look at our tracker in between.
- jlintz 6y agoWe do a "ScrumBan" style. Basically we do backlog grooming, sprint planning with 2 week sprints. We factor in that the oncall engineer will likely have less velocity that sprint and we're ok with carry over of some tickets (try to minimize this as much as possible). If you're having issues with your work fitting into a sprint, have you dug into why? Are you breaking down the task into small enough units that make them more digestable in a sprints worth of time? We also punted on standups, I never found them to be valuable and past experiences felt like they were more of a mechanism to get people into the office at a certain time. We do a once a week team meeting with an agenda that you can add to before hand. We discuss anything that needs to be discussed as a team and unblock anyone then. I trust everyone is doing work daily and I can check our sprint board without having everyone tell me what they worked on daily.
- apple4ever 6y agoI think a ScrumBan style would work much better, with 2 week sprints. Yes - things just take awhile to get done. We split things up as much as possible. If we didn't have daily stand ups I think that would be helpful. BTW I am the Lead who acts as both the product owner and scrum master.