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I hate agile (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by edge@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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I hate scrum

I hate stand up

I hate sprints

Fuck Toyota

How have we taken the most autistic job and tacked a stupid, worthless, autistic unfriendly process on to it? (the answer of course is capitalism)

I want to quit but I can't get another job and even if I could it would just be more of this shit.

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[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What I really, really, really hate is the time registration tyranny where you have to do estimates, have meetings about estimates, remember to turn on and off timers, fiddle with timesheets when you forget about the timers, answer questions like "how will this change that everyone agrees needs to be done affect the estimates?" and defend why a task that was estimated to six hours took eight to complete.

Same. The time tracking is one of those things the more you spend time doing the more you realize it's a waste of time.

I have ADHD, I have trouble making a realistic estimate on how long it takes to cook pasta and you expect me to be able to accurately predict how long it takes to compete a 3000+ hour project with a ton of external dependencies, arcane legacy code and agile constantly evolving requirements?

That's one big reason I hate how individualized software development. It's crazy that it's all YOUR job to handle all that. There is no team, no collective, just single nodes in a collection of nodes. It's really a shame.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I get your point about how individualised development is part of the problem. I just want to point out how these rituals to divine the future of a project can become absolutely cursed when done as a team effort. Sitting by yourself and pondering how long it will take to make the computer go beep is a miserable experience, having to discuss the minutiae of how long something will take because management got the idea that this will make the estimates "more accurate" is many times worse.

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

having to discuss the minutiae of how long something will take because management got the idea that this will make the estimates "more accurate" is many times worse.

BIG AGREE on that one