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by g051051 5y ago
You've been lucky. I've seen first hand, heard from my peers in other companies, and read throughout the industry, that Agile is probably the most poorly named thing out there. Just because they put it in the name, doesn't
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by g051051 5y ago
That philosophy preaches that any person can fulfill any task equally well, which isn't true. QA and ops are distinct skill sets, very different from what's needed to be a good developer. If I'm doing all that other stuff,
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by g051051 5y ago
Angry? That's an odd assessment. I'm angry at the people that make and sell LieCake, and how they've deluded you into thinking that cake is a sweet, tasty treat. The key point for you to take away, is that it's remar
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by g051051 5y ago
In the "agile" environments I've seen, devs are expected to be the ultimate generalist. We have to do planning, documentation, testing, qa, ops, and still write the code.
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by g051051 5y ago
> I don't understand this desire to wallow in the belief that anyone who tells you it doesn't have to be like that must be lying or selling something. Because literally every time we've encountered cake it's a pain
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by g051051 5y ago
An ad is pretty much useless for that, other than "negative" words (to me) like "scrum", "agile", etc. I'd be looking at the tech stack for things I'm proficient in, or things I'd be interested
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by g051051 5y ago
> Companies with good engineering culture do engineering well. Companies with a poor culture do most things poorly. Very true, but the "good" companies will be good regardless of what methodology they use. And it's rar
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by g051051 5y ago
> You’re shooting yourself in the foot by ignoring companies that take pride in offering an agile development environment. Fine by me. Everything I've seen and heard of Agile (both in the last company I worked at and from others) i
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by g051051 5y ago
> incompetent managers or tech leads. This is one of the things that ruined my last gig. I have 3 decades of experience. Managers and tech leads are unlikely to have a fraction of that, so let me do my job. > Agile is a time stuck a
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by g051051 5y ago
I had a bonded ISDN setup with my company paying half of the fees, back in 1997 or so. I got to work from home, over a rock-steady 128kbit connection, on my home Linux PC connected to my HP workstation in the office. It was a magical time
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by g051051 5y ago
My brain parsed this as "Europe Is Trying to Reclaim Its Lost Chipmunk Glory".
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by g051051 5y ago
Equifax was doing this back in 2000 (including "Sentinel Credit Monitoring): https://web.archive.org/web/20000301171229/http://www.econsu... Checked your credit lately? IMMEDIATELY view the informat
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by g051051 6y ago
Is this supposed to be a joke? It's gibberish.
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by g051051 6y ago
It takes a while to load and display, possibly being hugged to death. Leave the tab open for a few minutes and check back in a bit.
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by g051051 6y ago
Strangely, the thing that jumped out at me was "Have to delete your emails constantly due to only having 1gb email space". What's going on there that you're having to juggle keeping stuff in a 1GB limit?
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by g051051 6y ago
I can do their jobs, but no one else can do mine .
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by g051051 6y ago
So-called "DevOps" falls into this as well. Not enough Ops staff? Just put the devs on call, too. They can still do all of their normal work in addition to all the ops stuff. I look forward to when DevOps stops being "a
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by g051051 6y ago
Ugh. If I have to do all of that, in addition to all of the development work, then what purpose do all the other managers, designers, PMs, POs, etc. serve? Again, devs have to do everyone else's jobs including their own. In the same
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by g051051 6y ago
In our office, wearing headphones was viewed as not being a "team player", because it dissuaded people from interrupting you!
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by g051051 6y ago
Ugh, yes. The other "innovation" was to redo the building as an open-plan office. The increase and noise and decrease in productivity was ridiculous.
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by g051051 6y ago
> your need for an instant answer often derails my work flow. This! The office paradigm values everyone else's time over my time. It paints interruption as a virtue. My last employer (before COVID) cancelled all WFH with the stat
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by g051051 6y ago
C-based CGI programs that implemented a web app for doing drop shipment of phones to customers. It was supposed to be used for just a few months while they waited to roll out a more official solution. The users hated the official one, and
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by g051051 6y ago
The first "real" Java program I wrote back in 1997 was a huge applet. It was the replacement for an existing X Windows application, with 42 screens. The applet itself worked great, but the networking technology at the time was s
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by g051051 6y ago
According to the last company I worked at, software engineers can do everyone else's jobs when things get behind. PO busy? Work with the customer to get requirements, then write stories and tickets. QA running behind? Developers ca
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by g051051 6y ago
It didn't start out that way. I worked in the same place for a lot of years, but it started deteriorating rapidly when new management came in, they tried to push "Agile", etc. I don't work there any more. Even when it
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by g051051 6y ago
> In software engineering, in general, companies take extremely good care of their workforce because labor is very scarce and expensive. Not that I've seen. I experienced a lot of "abuse" like OP mentioned in the last few
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by g051051 6y ago
Not a good analogy either. In this case, the publisher is perfectly within their rights to not offer these works for sale anymore. However, under the First-sale doctrine, they have no right to control resale of the physical copies of the
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by g051051 6y ago
> I know Scrum / SAFe proponents will say we were doing it wrong. I guess you just weren't Agileing and Scruming hard enough!
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by g051051 6y ago
I've never met an actual, real developer (not manager or business wonk) who actually liked Agile. At most, people seem to tolerate it.
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by g051051 6y ago
My last place had those problems, but scrum was used in the opposite way. If we pushed back on things, we weren't "agile". Burn down was used a a club even though the model they chose would usually result in everything pend

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