ghostinit

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by ghostinit 7mo ago
I have a guy on my team with 'architect' in his title who asked me what a REST API is last month. The team quietly works around him, but the situation feels unsustainable. I wrote down the full story here: [link para o seu post].
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25 years after the Agile, did the industry help or hurt software development?
3 points by ghostinit 8mo ago|1 comments
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by ghostinit 8mo ago
I've been a software architect for 25 years, mostly in banking infrastructure. Something that's been bothering me and I wanted to get HN's perspective on. The Certified Scrum Master pipeline works roughly like this: a 2-day c
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by ghostinit 8mo ago
His first week he sat in on a discussion about Kafka consumer group rebalancing causing production issues. Engineers were deep in partition strategies and offset management. Forty five minutes in he asked "have we tried breaking this i
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Anyone else spend 4 hours planning sprints that die in 2 days?(agilelie.com)
2 points by ghostinit 8mo ago|2 comments
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by ghostinit 8mo ago
I've been working in bank tech for 25 years and this pattern just keeps repeating everywhere I go. Team sits down for sprint planning. Takes forever. Probably 4 hours by the time we're done arguing about story points and breaking
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by ghostinit 8mo ago
Yeah in theory. Scrum Guide says it can be anyone, but when you hire a dedicated full-time Scrum Master... they need to justify existing. That's when it stops being team member helping out and becomes process person from outside.
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by ghostinit 8mo ago
Interesting strategy. I've thought about getting certified just to have the credibility. The irony would be certified Scrum Master saying "we don't need full ceremony right now" harder to dismiss as "doesn't
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Three engineers were shipping. Then management hired a Scrum Master
5 points by ghostinit 8mo ago|5 comments
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by ghostinit 8mo ago
This is the part that gets me. When it works, it's just someone doing basic execution. When it doesn't, you're paying $120k for someone to send calendar invites and forget retros. That contrast you described, pharma-sales-rep
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by ghostinit 9mo ago
The contrast you're describing is interesting, one great one who made things pleasant vs the rest being net-negative. I've been looking at what differentiates the good ones, and it seems to come down to: 1. Actually removing block
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by ghostinit 9mo ago
That pattern of making the role redundant is interesting - I've been tracking this across companies and it seems pretty common. I analyzed time allocation data from Scrum Masters and found they spend ~60% of their time in meetings abou
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What's been your experience with Scrum Master?
1 points by ghostinit 9mo ago|6 comments
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Agile Standup Calculator(agilelie.com)
1 points by ghostinit 9mo ago|0 comments