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> constant infantilization of people So the solution to avoid infantilizing them is to organize through scrum, standups and sprints? :P (which is where the dis
by ssivark 4y ago
> constant infantilization of people
So the solution to avoid infantilizing them is to organize through scrum, standups and sprints? :P
(which is where the discussion started)
That said, it's fair to say that a lot of young people are capable of far more than contemporary culture (or management) recognizes.
- pas 4y agodo you have a very loosely defined goal in an uncertain environment? then, yes, try to adopt an iterative workflow.
- zasdffaa 4y agoThis has never happened to me or anywhere I've worked (except see below) because we always had reasonably defined goals, maybe at the high-level only, but they were clear and we could work on them. Except for research projects you should have a pretty clear understanding of what's needed because business is a pretty dull, straightforward thing. Okay, the exceptions: management failures. When them who should be doing their job are too fucking incompetent to pull their finger out of their arses. Years ago I worked at one place where they had 3 home-made frameworks floating around the company. A framework was clearly needed, management just dithered, so 3 different programmers just got on with it and did the necessary creation. Triple the work done, and an inevitable political war was brewing over which one would be used. And this was a medium sized company producing accounting software, not some inexperienced startup. Oh yes, I do have other stories like this... Crap management is a curse. It's always management IME. Fuckers seem to breed like rabbits too. Yes I am bitter.
- coryfklein 4y agoIf you read the OP, the word "sprint" is used in its less formal definition of "working long hours for an extended period of time", not in the formal description of an AGILE time-boxed work period.