I don’t really know anything other than Distraction Driven Development. Between being waterboarded with Slack, email, and noise on both about everything else, a

I don’t really know anything other than Distraction Driven Development. Between being waterboarded with Slack, email, and noise on both about everything else, and walls of all team meetings… only the loudest, quickest, and shiniest things get done. The carefully groomed backlog is irrelevant in a crisis, and in the realm of devops it seems that’s the norm. I’m certain that I am part of that problem. My neurotype seeks, even demands novelty. My role requires creative work among a stream of incidents. The not quite platform team thing. I’m finding myself working late and at odd times to get creative work done and it’s not sustainable. The promise of agile is to fix this. The reality is most people can’t, won’t, or simply don’t say “no, there’s no cutting in line. It goes to triage then the back of its respective line.” I don’t think Distraction is a good thing per se, but it feels inevitable from where I sit. Agile eschews planning, or embraces not sticking with the plan as state changes. I’ve not really worked in a waterfall environment, but if it’s agile’s antonym then I’m in.