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I'll be the first to admit that managing a complex project's timeline is not a skill of mine. All I know is that the franken-scrum monstrosities that I have be

by xedrac 3y ago

I'll be the first to admit that managing a complex project's timeline is not a skill of mine. All I know is that the franken-scrum monstrosities that I have been subjected to in various organizations have all had a very negative impact on my morale and productivity. The problem I see is that the the business will want to make tradeoffs that the developers may not like. How you reconcile the two without hurting morale is the challenge. I left my last company largely because their version of scrum was sucking the life out of me.

RayFrankenstein 3y ago
My problem is not whether I “like” management’s tradeoffs they force me as a developer to make; my problem is that managements typically don’t take accountability for choosing to make them. And then management (and their allies in the closely aligned “Software Craftsmanship” movement) blame the developers for the consequences of those tradeoffs and all the technical debt that typical entails.