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To be fair, I have the advantage of being part of the leadership :) (CTO at a startup). I think this style of delivery is fine as long as both management and t
by romannikolaev 10mo ago
To be fair, I have the advantage of being part of the leadership :) (CTO at a startup).
I think this style of delivery is fine as long as both management and the teams are comfortable with it. The only thing that frustrates me in this setup is the agile theater - planning, estimating, and refinement.
- markus_zhang 10mo agoOne of the reasons that we stopped caring is because planning is impossible. You could plan very well and leave 20% capacity, and then get a ton of new requests in the middle of the sprint so need to replan(we leave that to personal judgments). Can’t blame it on the clients though because they genuinely can’t plan. My conclusion is, if my team is facing clients that can’t plan properly, don’t bother plan anything for your own team.
- romannikolaev 10mo agoYes, it sounds very familiar. Scrum is not really designed for this mode of operation. It works well when there are no interruptions, and the team knows the code and domain area inside out. To be honest, I was only once in this situation. It was when I worked with a small team on a greenfield project. We knew the whole codebase, and the project wasn't deployed to clients yet - so no surprises during sprints.