Everyone in the team is required by the Scrum Master to post on the virtual retro board at least 1 thank you for another person in the team and then read it out loud. Anyone not doing so is called out and reprimanded in front of the manager. And of course the suckups in the team wouldn't miss this o...Read more
2023: our Scrum Master is out sick today guys so we can't do Sprint planning, btw can everyone post your standup updates on Slack. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)
2YoE as a Graphic Designer 2YoE as an UX Designer at start-up 3mo Internship at Salesforce company Worked as a freelancer for a variety of UX related projects, have experience directing sprints, managing whole products and communicating with marketing teams and programmers to align goals in a horiz...Read more
Got a ticket this sprint to change all our repo's default branch from master to main, I can already see a bunch of our jobs are going to fail & melt into a hot pile of s*** and I have to fix them
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 donβt know if others do the same but I donβt want to continue doing this as it is ...Read more
Hello! The team I'm on operates with a rotating scrum master (we rotate once a month throughout our team) We're deciding on essential responsibilities that we could/delegate to our scrum master. Beyond the standard things such as stand-ups and sprint planning what responsibilities do you wish you...Read more
We have a SDE3 and instead of SDM deciding who will work on what, it that A$$Hole decides. SDM keeps a poker face in 1:1 and let me take a call in sprint planning and in sprint planning, fakes being a deal maker, but does everything this puppet master wants. Last time a SDE opposed this procedure, h...Read more
I recently joined a new team as an EM and we don't seem to have a scrum master. They expect EM to lead all sprint ceremonies which feels odd atleast for the retro. How do other places do it? Should I ask for an SM?
In my team, the director of product acts as the sprint master, drives bug scrub, task roadmap meetings. We have 2 week sprints, daily stand ups, retros, jira tickets with estimates, and weekly reports on top of it. All efforts have to have a ticket and need a budget area. The director of engineeri...Read more
I've been heading a small project from several specified in the team's roadmap. While my manager is well aware of the delivery timeline, I face resistance from the scrum master when trying to add tasks to the backlog. The scrum master, who pre-grooms with my manager, suggests that higher-priority st...Read more
Our SM only clicks on the start new sprint, close sprint buttons and just puts a lot of pressure on 5he devs to deliver something with in the same sprint. Other than that they don't do much. Our PO is next level, he doesn't know the business logic of the product from business perspective. Anytime we...Read more
Is this the new way of glorifying Scrum Masters and Project Managers these days? We, at Salesforce, have them too and they arenβt into much technical work at all. All they do is scribble something during our sprint meetings and ramble some irrelevant stuff to make them feel important. So what exac...Read more
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...Read more
Hi All, I am a few years out of college and work for msft in a business technology team supporting internal teams with their workflow. I work problem assessment, requirements planning/solution design, sprint planning w/ engineering, project management etc. I also develop myself using power platform...Read more
25 people on my team of 40 were laid-off this week. All vendors have been advised to downsize. They're not interested in employing Testers or Scrum Masters. They want to reduce the number of TPM's. The delayed sprint integration has fucked it up for everyone. It was a shitty company to begin with. M...Read more
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...Read more
Hi All, I am a few years out of college and work for msft in a business technology team supporting internal teams with their workflow. I work problem assessment, requirements planning/solution design, sprint planning w/ engineering, project management etc. I also develop myself using power platform...Read more
So I have a sprint task. I also noticed the code pipeline is broken and spent ~1 hr to fix that. Then I had a team mate call me to help him for 30 mins. Another team mate just pinged me to make a code change which is just 2 liner but I need to validate the unit and integrations tests for the package...Read more
Our team has "Retrospective" after each sprint and we fill up details about how the past sprint went, recognitions, things that went wrong, improvements, etc. Our team use to have a lot of details there with many no. of recognition but it's been going down pretty much for the last 3/4 sprints. My m...Read more
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...Read more