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" enough to think about those types of things. Is this a joke of the industry? I wanna be a scrum master if I get paid that much to ask basic questions.
Ihate the standup process too but I feel sprits shield me as a dev from getting over burdened by product or management teams and of course there's some overhead to sprints but I feel it actually helps developers and teams plan things. otherwise it will be like your PM or you Manager coming by everyday to ask can you finish A and also B. and next day it's like no C is more important let's do that first.
I mean true but why are these the only two project management options? I'm sure there can be a compromise between those two methods that optimizes for less overhead and bs and more for developer protection
agile should be super low overhead. like 15 min a week if you do it right. worst case 15 min a day for a SWE
As a hardware engineer I have no idea what scrum or agile is but I do know lot of people hate it.
It's like someone took Dilbert or the Onion as gospel.
You probably just work with a bad PM
A lot of managers seem to basically do just that. All they ask is these kind of 'admin' questions and move tasks around on the tool that manages the sprints. You do wonder how they are called 'managers' and get paid what they do.
the answer to your question is yes
Did you bring up in the sprint retrospect to get rid of scrum?
I'm a TPM and a scrum master meaning I am 'that guy'. Honestly interested in your feedback on how to make your job better and help you succeed. One comment: a lot of teams switch to Kanban so that the sprint abstraction matters less. Hell, you could even try waterfall; I've seen it work for new product launches. But if you don't have a way to organize the tasks that need to be done, you are going to get frustrated quickly. Also, agile emphasizes people over process; if the process is onerous or not meeting your goals then change it.
I understood some of the words you just wrote.
couldn't agree more.. if you don't see any value in the process - why do it? speak up! say it doesn't bring you anything during retrospectives... otherwise doing process just for the sake of doing process isn't what agile really is.
I wonder how much money amazon wastes every year having entire dev teams in an all day meeting at the end of every sprint for backlog grooming, retrospectives, planning, etc
You should try a startup, I hear they are good about lack of process.
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can't agree more, hate the process!