@MrL said in Agile taken tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo far:
@stillwater said in Agile taken tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo far:
@MrL Is it like roleplay but in a professional environment? Is everyone aware that someone took a joke too far and everyone has to play along?
It wasn't like in the article, company structure was rather normal. But the whole Agile/Scrum thing was retarded and harmful. Exhausting plannings with consideration about every stupid detail, writing childish 'stories' about every fucking button press, Jira wankery taking 20 minutes to save a simplest ticket, pointless scrum rituals without any consequences in real world.
And above all - never ending discussions about our Scrum quality. Are we Scrum enough? Do we use story points correctly? Was last retrospective ideally scrummy? Let's change this. Now let's change that. Let's go back to this thing from two months ago. On and on and on, ever changing irritating process mostly concerned about itself.
My estimation is that all this Scrum crap took over 25% of our time.
I figured I had to spend an average of seven hours a week in meetings. But it was actually worse than that, because 1) there's a cost to that level of interruption and 2) Since there was always a good chance that the people you needed to talk to were in meetings, it slowed things down further.
Since I wasn't one of the cool kids, almost all of the time I had to spend in the meetings was pointless, since there was little reason for me to say anything, and what was said was fiercely believed to be helpful rather than actually being helpful. The cool kids loved the endless meetings, because it meant that they had a captive audience for their endless words of great wisdom.
Once I got myself switched to the kanban team, it was a big improvement. One five - ten minute meeting a day seemed perfect, especially since I was allowed/expected to say my share.