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I could buy this argument. Had I been a junior during the agile era, I'm not sure I would have developed as fast or as far as I have. The most agile pilled co

I could buy this argument. Had I been a junior during the agile era, I'm not sure I would have developed as fast or as far as I have. The most agile pilled company I worked for just treated juniors & seniors as interchangeable cogs, except seniors should be able to clear more points per sprint. Active discouragement from thinking outside the scope of your ticket, keep your head down and mouth shut.

heurist 2y ago
When I was starting out a bit more than a decade ago, I was on an agile/scrum software team in a hardware company. The team was fine but I found the process painful. I ejected as soon as a new director realized he could do algebra with the story points and began plotting stories quarters out. I've never been on a scrum team since and am happier for it. As a manager now, I would push back on scrum in almost every situation (and have).
- marcosdumay 2y ago
  The problem with "agile" is that everybody claims to do it. Companies with a healthy environment cram their procedures into agile-derived names, and keep the healthy environment, while unhealthy ones also cram their procedures into agile-derived names, and use their universality as an excuse to never improve. I think scrum is irremediable, but even then, some places only practice it pro-forma: divide the work into tickets at the beginning of the sprint, rewrite the tickets into what they did at the end, and go home happy.
intelVISA 2y ago
> juniors & seniors as interchangeable cogs welcome to the car factory
myaccountonhn 2y ago
This doesn’t mirror my experience at all. Where I worked agile meant removing unnecessary processes as well as trusting people over tools. As a junior I was given a lot of flexibility and probably too little oversight. I was mostly given a high level task, no deadline, and had to together with others find ways to make the tasks smaller.

heurist 2y ago

When I was starting out a bit more than a decade ago, I was on an agile/scrum software team in a hardware company. The team was fine but I found the process painful. I ejected as soon as a new director realized he could do algebra with the story points and began plotting stories quarters out. I've never been on a scrum team since and am happier for it. As a manager now, I would push back on scrum in almost every situation (and have).

marcosdumay 2y ago
The problem with "agile" is that everybody claims to do it. Companies with a healthy environment cram their procedures into agile-derived names, and keep the healthy environment, while unhealthy ones also cram their procedures into agile-derived names, and use their universality as an excuse to never improve. I think scrum is irremediable, but even then, some places only practice it pro-forma: divide the work into tickets at the beginning of the sprint, rewrite the tickets into what they did at the end, and go home happy.

intelVISA 2y ago

> juniors & seniors as interchangeable cogs welcome to the car factory

myaccountonhn 2y ago

This doesn’t mirror my experience at all. Where I worked agile meant removing unnecessary processes as well as trusting people over tools. As a junior I was given a lot of flexibility and probably too little oversight. I was mostly given a high level task, no deadline, and had to together with others find ways to make the tasks smaller.