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by pracer 6y ago
>If you’re trying to enforce SAFe on something much smaller then I think you’re probably doing it wrong. the comment you are answering was on point >I know Scrum / SAFe proponents will say we were doing it wrong. It's ALWAYS
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by pracer 6y ago
> If they're imposing a cost and not bringing value to the developers, you're supposed to change them. And then, based on the comments seeing here, you are doing it wrong because >if your experience of standups, plannings, r
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by pracer 6y ago
> typically a business needs some predictability in output in order to plan ahead. If the business can’t function well because delivery is unreliable the problem is that this assumes that estimates can be accurate, which in some projects
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by pracer 6y ago
But that's the opposite of my experience with agile and Scrum in the companies, where it is used as an excuse for non tech managers to enforce what they feel works better for them. In terms of control or, in some cases, micromanagement
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by pracer 6y ago
> I will second retros. I have seen team cohesion go up and down based on the quality of the retros. Could it be the other way? That the quality of the retros went up and down based on the team cohesion? If that's the case (and I be
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by pracer 6y ago
> The Big Lie is that team building can be replaced by process. This! They try to do it backwards: instead of building the team that will organically end up having standups over coffee in the morning, forcing the behaviour in the hopes t
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by pracer 6y ago
>That safety comes from trust, and that trust comes from routine demonstration of vulnerability and support That's my intuition about what's wrong with these ceremonies: they look like they are trying to foster those things by
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by pracer 6y ago
That's my impression too. People talking about the benefits of the office are actually complaining of not having everyone around (either to have social aspect or to what they call "casual collaboration" which reduces to being
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by pracer 6y ago
If you think about it, what you miss is the possibility to interrupt others at any time, which is not very considerate once you realise it. Calling it "casual collaboration" is not honest, as that's not collaboration. The oth
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by pracer 6y ago
At the end it is about finding a place without distractions. Not every home is prepared for that (and sometimes even impossible, due to kids, for example). But it is not the office per se which I claim that tend to be really disruptive in g
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by pracer 6y ago
It can help to build a group of friends in the area and not depending on the coworkers. For that I would recommend groups for activities, gyms, workshops and local activities. It is difficult if you never did it before, but it is worth the
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by pracer 6y ago
You may have a boundary and respect problem there. Working from home just uncovered it and it may be a good idea to solve it.
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by pracer 6y ago
You are confusing people with companies. A person is political, a company should not. Otherwise, you are siding with totalitarian regimes that decide which services or rights you have based on what you think or believe. It was tried in the
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by pracer 6y ago
And how is that not doable remotely? "Learning new technology" can be done at home (or whenever the employee decides) and deployment will happen in a remote server or in the cloud. So, again, how this full remote prevents grow and
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by pracer 6y ago
As it was said above: it is a requirement of the job. But making it a requirement without actually being one, that's bogus.
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by pracer 6y ago
And what about spending the winter in some sunny island for a month? Getting to know the team when one starts is good, and then just working with the tools to meet and talk to them. But my impression is that most of the people who think lik
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by pracer 6y ago
Agree. This is another typical article about "how bad big bad companies are" because the technologies were not used as the writers wanted them to be. They are always oblivious to the possibility that the users and developers of th
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by pracer 6y ago
You better hopw that they are programmers. Meteorologists provide the algos and calculations, programmers (or if you prefer, scientists programmers) then implement it. Scientists focused on science don't have the time to learn good cod