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Have you looked into working at a non-agile company? I thought working in waterfall projects would suck, but I think it is a large part of why my current job d

• Trasmatta 5y ago
  The funny thing is that my current company technically doesn't practice agile. They love to advertise that to interviewees, but the problem is they haven't really replaced it with anything. There's still a lot of process involved, but it's almost all communicated ad-hoc, so there's massive confusion about how stuff should get done, or who should do what. Requirements gathering is a mess, and yet we're still asked for estimates, even though we don't even have a rough list of requirements. People have begun pushing back against that (including me), but in response I'm beginning to see the tendrils of Agile sneak their way in, which has me uneasy. But I don't know what a good alternative is...that's kind of why I think the social problems surrounding team based software development are often way harder than the code itself, and why I've got this interest in shifting to solo work somehow.
  • roeles 4y ago
    Yeah, I guess most companies struggle with agile and end up in the middle of nowhere. With the rituals but not the mindset. I meant to describe a company that doesn't do the rituals and uses waterfall to run projects.