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by g051051 5y ago
Oh lord, yes. The scrum masters at my last gig had no technical knowledge at all. All kinds of certifications for scrum, had no idea about actual software development.
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by g051051 5y ago
The "scrum masters" at my last place didn't interact with customers at all. That was the PO's job.
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How much of all that provided any actual value?
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by g051051 5y ago
I disagree with the whole thing. It was written by consultants to sell consulting services. The "principles" are empty aphorisms that have practically crippled the software development industry. Edit: > How long have you been
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by g051051 5y ago
> How did I start it when you were the one who made a blanket statement that managers don't do "real work"? That wasn't to you directly, it was to OP. You felt compelled to take it personally, though. > I never to
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by g051051 5y ago
> You seem bent on belittling me or just being confrontational. Well, to my eye, you started it. But if you didn't intend that, then I apologize for misunderstanding. > I'm not sure why, maybe you resent my career choices o
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by g051051 5y ago
My last "team" was constantly paralyzed by this. The scrum master would go around and everyone had to vote on the number of points they thought a story was, which then led to extended debate. Of course, it can always be worse...
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by g051051 5y ago
> My current job is the opposite. Some tasks take 15 minutes of discussion (no, they aren't complex tasks) with people debating whether it is worth 5 points or 8. It is just tiring and pointless. That was my last gig. The whole org
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by g051051 5y ago
> These days, mandatory Scrum is a contra-indicator for any project that crosses my path as a freelancer. Yes! Although I don't agree that Agile is a good idea that scrum ruined.
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by g051051 5y ago
> The success of companies and project management approaches is not always correlated Glad to see the author admit this... unfortunately most scrum cultists can't believe this can be the case.
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by g051051 5y ago
> Lol well I wouldn't consider myself "late career" At a rough guess, you would have switched around age 42. That's late career by just about any definition. > I've been in all corners of our industry, from a
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by g051051 5y ago
What's an "IC"? All I can find online is "Independent Contractor".
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by g051051 5y ago
> I guess all I can say is there are good and bad managers out there just like there are good and bad engineers out there, or in any job title. True. I see far more bad managers than bad engineers, though. Bad engineers get weeded out
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by g051051 5y ago
I'd wager that most of the people you ever managed would consider that "larger impact" to be a negative one.
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> Vannevar Bush was more instrumental to the Manhattan project than Oppenheimer was They could have replaced Vannevar Bush with another manager, it would have been much harder (if even possible) to replace Oppenheimer.
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by g051051 5y ago
And yet, I've run across countless "managers" who were previously developers, who had no credentials for management other than wanting to be a manager. Their "training" was to take some sort of corporate HR-provi
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by g051051 5y ago
> I've found most managers have been a hindrance to getting the job done. Same. Additionally, "management" seems to be the path chosen by the most incompetent programmers to try to salvage a career.
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by g051051 5y ago
> do you ever wonder who keeps your path clear, who makes sure you can focus on delivery, who advocates for meeting-free days, good work practices, or explains why those conference passes are money well spent? Yes I do, because no one ha
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by g051051 5y ago
I've never understood engineers who decide to go manage. Why would you give up actually doing real work? Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
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Finally. It's absurd that it took the Supreme Court to settle this.
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by g051051 5y ago
> Agile is sold as a snake oil panacea by the so-called Agile leaders and coaches. The landscape is full of hype and overpromises. Absolutely! I'll go even farther and say that Agile is actively toxic to software development.
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by g051051 5y ago
> They are similar skill sets but the domains are different. Exactly. They're specializations, like heart surgeon vs. orthopedic surgeon. > I have been at this for 25+ years and I remember the days of silos. 32 years for me. Si
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by g051051 5y ago
Because it treats Dev and Ops as having identical, equivalent skill sets. Attempting to make this true invariably leads to disaster. In over 30 years of professional software development, I've never seen the problems it purports to s
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by g051051 5y ago
100% agreement, but from the developer side. DevOps has been nothing short of a disaster for software development, on par with Agile.
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by g051051 5y ago
> Clone the full experience on a dedicated site, OnlyFantasy.com You are, absolutely, a genius.
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by g051051 5y ago
The Internet, obviously. But that's the worst thing to happen to everybody , not just Software Developers.
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DevOps and Agile: The two worst things ever to happen to software development (and developers).
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I see it actually interpreted (by scrum "masters") as "master of the scrum teams".
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That, and an "Agile Coach". They were the absolute worst people at the last place I worked.
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by g051051 5y ago
It's not about deliberateness, it's about mindless ritual for rituals' sake. Only idiots would perform cargo-cult practices over a set time regardless of need or utility. By using your brain to take time only when necessary

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