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> The pressure leads to manufacturing bite sized requirements that can be demoed in two weeks... Yes, the whole 2 week 'sprint' thing really wears me down. I c
by zelos 5y ago
> The pressure leads to manufacturing bite sized requirements that can be demoed in two weeks...
Yes, the whole 2 week 'sprint' thing really wears me down. I can see the value of deadlines and splitting work up, but between all the release/demo/planning overhead and the constant rush to fit things in it leaves me with a constant low-level anxiety.
3 weeks seems like a more reasonable figure to me. Or with a senior team, just having a prioritised backlog of tasks and doing them in order (sounds crazy, I know).
- coffeefirst 5y agoI've come to see a lot of these tools as sharp objects. Used well, sprints can help figure out how to put tracks of work in parallel, and keep anyone from overloading themselves. Used badly, they're perpetual deadlines that fault individuals for inefficiencies in planning and create all kinds of fun toxic incentives. To add insult to injury, everyone that complains about agile just gets told they're "doing it wrong," which 1. no shit, that's the substance of that complaint, and 2. blames individuals for what's essentially a management failure.