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- Agile: Sprint/Scrum details for your team What is the sprint duration for your team? How do you split it between Dev and Test? How much time for UAT? Deployment at the end of every sprint? What's the test strategy typically like? Exploratory or detailed test cases? I'll start.. 2 weeks sprint, 5 days dev, 3 days test, 2 days uat and deplo
- vote Agile/scrum/Sprint/stand-ups should be abolished Agree or disagree?
- If you had to redefine/modify Agile and how Sprints work, how would you do? Right now, we allocate 10 points for every engineer and each sprint is 2 weeks long. Everyday standup to unblock and track progress. Bi-weekly with FE, QA etc. At the end of sprint we do demos. A ticket should be no more than 3 pointers. 1 pointer - half a day, 2 pointer - 1 day 3 pointer - 2-3 day
- Make Sprint retrospective fun Anyone has any ideas to make the sprint retrospective a fun process and improve engagement? #sprint #agile #scrum #software #engineering #swe
- No use of standups and status every day Guys, Is it only me or anyone else feels the same , that standups are useless every day ? It's too much of status...when...why everyday and on somedays every few hours status. The whole agile thing is overrated, its created just for managers and to make sure people work their butt off every day. L
- Tech companies not following Agile/Scrum Hello all, Are there companies in tech that do not follow the scrum/agile software dev lifecycle. Kinda fed up of the two week sprint lifecycle - been doing it for years and find it boring and monotonous. And would like to explore something a bit different. TC#200
- Agile/Mini Waterfall Process Suggestions Feature development in my company is not 100% agile but does follow two weeks sprint which consists of development (by developers), testing (by QA) and UAT (Product/Stakeholder). I have noticed most of the times, Development and QA activities take majority of the sprint and push stories to UAT tow
- vote Agile - tracking velocity If you are following an agile framework for development and planning, are you successfully tracking sprint velocity? If your answer is yes, would you ge able to share any insights on what helped your team to become successful with this? #agile
- vote Does Agile Methodology work for you? I’m trying to understand how effective Agile methodology is for tech workers. This includes sprint planning and Kanban boards for both individual contributors and managers, as well as SWEs, SREs and Operations staff. How much Agile is enough and how much is too much? Please share your thoughts. Than
- Amazon: Does AWS use Agile Methodology? Does AWS use Agile Methodology and Sprints? I figure it is probably team based, but I am curious what different AWS team uses there. TC: 250
- Best practices on sprint process Hi guys, Since every companies has a different agile sprint process I wanted to get your opinions on what are the best practices on the process of sprint. In the past, I was in a team where requirements and tasks are constantly changing during the sprints which made me and other developers hard to
- Tortoise Fragomen Provided them documents on December 8, 2021. They still haven't filed the H-1B petition. They don't even look determined to file it soon looking at their slow/delayed email responses. Fragomen is so lazy and slow. They need agile two weeks sprints with daily scrums. #h1b #workvisa
- Agile process for research projects? How is your team's project for monitoring research projects, using points for stories or hourly estimates for each sprint, similar to Agile software development. Management wants us to follow agile process for research and put in hours adding up to 80, for a 2-week sprint. ML modeling or research i
- Metawork makes me miserable By meta work I mean: sprints, “agile”, “estimating”, OKRs, dealing with product and clueless PMs. It fucking sucks. I just want to write code and get paid. Why do I have to play these dumb games to give someone who has a mostly made up job something to do?
- why not solve wlb problem using agile? People on blind often complain about WLB problems in companies. Just want to discuss a way to resolve WLB problem using Agile approaches. Let’s say you need to work 60h per week or work over the weekends. You can bring this up in sprint retrospective and say “we needed to work over the weekend thi
- Sprint retrospective??? Perspectives please 🙏 Fellow Blinders! How do you guys make sure the action items created during the retrospectives are addressed? For now, my team just comes up multiple action items but I never see them being addressed. I want to have a concrete way to making sure these items are addressed in the upcoming sprints. #
- YOU GUYS I DID IT So as we all know, agile/sprint universally sucks the life out of us and only exists to fund the egos of mythical project managers/agile coaches/scrum masters. Truly the greatest scourge of our era. Anyway, my team daily stand-ups were taking sometimes 30+ minutes where people used it as an opportu
- vote Follow your passion So who all feel they should have given an ear to the below advice back in time while choosing profession: “Follow your passion.” And who feels his/her passion was always to just sit in front of a laptop for half the life and saving for early retirement after selling your youth? #software #enginee
- vote Agile scrum .... does it work for Software Developers? As an Individual contributor who has to do all the real coding I feel like Agile is such a waste of time ... we have spring planning, daily stand ups, reviews , retrospects, demo sessions every sprint !!! Sometimes these meetings take away 3-4 hours from my day !!! And daily stand ups can be very
- Sick of everything Sick of Trump politics , constant news, constant disruption and hustle and having to deliver and iterate something constantly due to short Agile sprints . Sick of job hunting , interviewing and leetcoding. Sick of nagging wife and the dog too. I often dream of working at a coffee shop in Portland or
- Can I tell my manager that I cannot complete same story points as others in the team? We are a team of 4 developers and I am the slowest one, meaning, I cannot complete same amount of story points as other developers on the team complete in a sprint. I always work extra hours to be on par with them. I don’t know if others do the same but I don’t want to continue doing this as it is
- Who else is sick of agile and scrum masters I'm a new grad and this agile stuff is really something. All I hear from product/scrum managers is "should we put it in for next sprint", "isn't this out of scope of the ticket", "we should take this offline", "do you have any blockers?" As if developers are too disorganized or not "big picture" eno
- I love being a data scientist but not the crazy hours I have worked as a data scientist for 5 years now. I have reached the senior level with a TC equivalent of 120 k$. I love my job but I resent the fast paced, no pause robotic Agile sprint culture, the stakeholders who have never ending demands, and the horrific long hours, from 8:30 to 9 pm everyday
- Transition to PM roles Currently SDE, 3 years experience. I want to transition to PM roles. How can i achieve that without at MBA and very limited almost no opportunity for over time transition in current job. Community, please suggest. P.S. If anybody hiring for Product Management r /Associate Product Manager in India,a
- My team isn’t Amazonian enough I noticed that my team isn’t Amazonian enough. 1. They stick to process rather be agile and move fast. This creates a poor experience for customers who are impacted longer than that should be. 2. They prioritize sprint work rather than bugs, which causes tech debt to pile up. Nobody taking bias f
- Is so-called Agile methodology killing software companies? I'm talking about the way that Agile is applied in practice, things like work items and Sprints and planning. I think it can work when the software already has a foundation and you want to add features. The problem I see is when some whole new software system needs to be built. It's better in that c
- Older engineers in startups For older engineers who recently moved to startups or newly ipo’d growth companies like Doordash, how did you adapt particularly when it comes to code shipping speed. I have got into the mindset of exhaustive unit, integration and customer acceptance testing to make features regression proof which t
- vote Testers Shadowing SW Engineers My team closely collaborates with the test team. This test team is comprised of bootcamp graduates and they do not have STEM degrees (they aren’t SDET is my point). Their manager and our scrum master have put pressure on (publicly suggested) the software engineers to allow the testers to shadow us.
- *** FAANG or Like companies day to day *** Dear @teamblindians, I didn’t work in FAANG or like companies but I always wanted to know how the day to day work life. I feel FAANG people are super humans and impact the world. So asking these questions. 1. On avg how many lines of code you write daily 2. On avg how many hours you work 3. What
- Software engineering as a career field is becoming total b***shit Somebody has to say it. (1) LeetCode i.e. interview culture. Many career fields have erected similar barriers to entry (ex. certification exams on background theory graded on a competitive curve), but once you get through the barrier you're in for good. SWE is totally insane in that your job prospec
- Why QA get !$&? on so much in the tech industry? Curious what other devs and QA people think about QA in the industry. Been in QA for 8 years and the last three have been all doing automation testing. Every team / company ive been on see it as important but not really essential to a scrum team and their norms. Also have had comments before in spri
- Agile ( read: Scrum ) is a bad default methodology for a lot of projects Scrum seems to be the go-to Agile methodology. It sometimes is quite effective, depending on the project; However, it is not obvious to me that it is worth being the de facto standard for software engineering. I'm curious on everyone's thoughts and experiences with Scrum at your workplace. Here ar
- Seeking operational Azure Job opportunities. 6 years Azure cloud experience Hello guys, I am seeking opportunities in the cloud specifically Azure that allows more operational/administration rather than getting involved in the consulting or management . I have over 6 years of Azure experience, Cloud Solution Architect certification and I have worked for both Microsoft and
- PM Pressure I estimated 2 sprints to work on a feature; I suggested that I want to keep 3 days buffer primarily because I’ve not worked on some components on a feature; but the PM says you are taking way too much time to complete the feature; I said if I complete it before, I will take in other features and com
- Getting frustrated with a pseudo Agile Environment I really need some help, I work for a software agency and have become a dedicated asset to a Cryptocurrency Mobile App startup. I have been dedicated for ~6 months or so and during my time here I have seen one CIO and two Engineering Managers get fired. They got let go for all different reasons rang
- vote Micromanager but no pip vs non micromanager but pip. What is your choice? I used to be a micromanager before and my ‘micro’ management style helped three devs (over a period of 5 years) avoid pip. I used to work for a company where you could change teams just before you are placed on pip and managers nudged that option to avoid the headache of a pip.
- Failing interviews but don’t want to continue wit current org I am actively applying and interviewing though the number of interviewing companies are 2, I failed them. Due to lack of prior preparation in lld. I have prepared well for the Dsa and high level design. LLD got busted. Tried reading head first, got some better preparation but the fear holding back
- vote Guess my job title! I'm currently going through the process of asking for a job title change to more accurately reflect what I do and I'm facing pushback from my superiors because they see the title change as a "promotion". I want to show my superiors the results of this post as more 'evidence' that my responsibilities
- Sensing suspicious activity I am sensing suspicious activity between the senior engineer in the team who distributes work across the team being biased towards contractors who belong to specific service based company. All the contractors in our team are from that vendor itself and it's not possible unless they are getting help
- How to know when to give up on your company TLDR: detailed product org pain points for a friend. Are these common signs among start ups? What are the necessary ingredients for mid-senior ICs to invest time/effort to attempt a change vs cut the loss and leave? Asking the community based on recent conversations with a friend. Perhaps what My f
- link ‘ Build on your lot’ builders with cost+floor plans in bay area,ca. I searched but couldn’t find builders with floor plan catalog & approx cost. This was the only one- https://thomasjameshomesusa.com/northern-california/ Any recommendations? Thanks
- vote Stocks and US Elections #personalfinance #investments Has anyone noticed recent steady sell off? what do you think, what are the chances of stocks falling after upcoming US elections if trump wins or biden wins..
- vote What will happen if Prop 22 doesn’t pass? Title says it all. Mainly thinking from the Gig companies perspectives. Vote or comment #Prop22 #tech #california @postmates @caviar @grubhub
- Thoughts on this tiktok nuclear energy influence Her goal is to save nuclear plants and advocate for more nuclear energy using weird videos on tiktok. Thoughts ? https://twitter.com/isaboemeke/status/1319674446391619584
- Ayurvedic doctor in Bay Area Has anyone tried Ayurvedic consultation & treatment in the Bay Area? Looking for references/recommendations. Thanks #medical #health
- vote Which of the following stocks will double fastest? If you were to risk all your wealth in one tech stock which one would it be at this moment?
- all stocks have gone up considerably high but I still lost 40 k due to day trading I would like to invest in longterm stock. Which stock will double in next 3-6 months? holding apple hoping it would run up to 130
- link We need energy that doesn’t destroy the environment Look at this - how can this kind of destruction of natural beauty be allowed? https://imgur.com/gallery/kzEtb7w
- The world is what it is. We have to make the best of it... I am sick of people always complaining the world is going to the dogs. Leftists are snowflakes - Parents Right wing is bigoted - Friends The west exploits the developing nations. - My countrymen Google and facebook are stealing our data and we are the product. - Almost everyone You live so far away
- Need help for referrals in LA Just moved to Los Angeles earlier this year. I am a TPM with ~4 YOE. Current TC 200k. Need help getting referrals here, would be greatly appreciated. #la #losangeles #referrals #snap #netflix #tinder #twitch