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I did what you would have done in my previous job [1]. A larger "enterprise" style company bought us out and was trying to force their Enterprise Agile unto us
by spc476 4y ago
I did what you would have done in my previous job [1]. A larger "enterprise" style company bought us out and was trying to force their Enterprise Agile unto us. I felt it was the wrong development style for the team I was one---for over ten years my team had always been on time, on budget, smooth deployments (four a year was a "busy" year for us [1]) and no show-stopping bugs in production. Once the new company took over, we were blowing our deadlines, disastrous deployments and major bugs in production were found.
I raised my concerns up the chain of command, and got to a VP of the new parent company, who was looking into the situation until he was let go (or sacked, depending upon your point of view). All I wanted to do was go back to our previous style of development, which worked. But no, the parent company wants to do it their way.
I left shortly thereafter.
[1] Our customer was (well, technically still is if they're still a customer) a major cell phone carrier where a sprint for them is two years, not two weeks.