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I've been in groups where the management has said: "Guess what! We're going to be Agile and do Scrum!" Whereupon they sent a bunch of PMs off to be trained as
by kabdib 13y ago
I've been in groups where the management has said:
"Guess what! We're going to be Agile and do Scrum!"
Whereupon they sent a bunch of PMs off to be trained as Scrum masters.
On the first project, Management then said:
"Okay, go do that Agile stuff. And we think it will take you 13 sprints. Also, here's the stuff you'll be doing in the first sprint..."
Soon after, there were daily management meetings where people's burn-down rates were being discussed, based on the daily status reports that the PMs were collecting.
Just another way to micromanage people.
- wsc981 13y ago> "Just another way to micromanage people." I share the same sentiment. And I hate to be micromanaged. In a previous job a manager actually admitted to me that agile was a means to get more control over the developers and approach software development more like factory work, instead of creative work. A few months later I decided to leave, cause I need some sort of creativity in my approach to work, and for creativity I need freedom, not constraints.
- UK-AL 13y agoI really like agile precisely because of this. I get tasks given to me, and I can prove the amount of work I have done. Without metrics, you can end up at whim of managers gut feeling rather than what actually has been done.
- benjaminwootton 13y agoSCRUM was once described to me as micro-management without the managers :)
- kabdib 13y agoScrum is what good developers seem to do naturally anyway. They plan a little, and talk. I think that larger projects need more planning than Scrum, but if you look at Scrum's successes you'll see they are largely on projects where a lot of similar prior work had been done. In a sense, the design and up-front thiking came "for free". You usually can't get away with that on something that hasn't been done before.