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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 70 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Shirasho@lemmings.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nowadays they will tell you to work on something else in the meantime.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Your code can compile while you're in a retro, retrospectively looking back at the action items raised in a previous retro but not assigned any sprint time in the current sprint so you just raised a "what went wrong" about it not being planned and now you have more non-sprint work to do because every problem should be presented with a solution and if you could have that for the next retro they'll review this retro's action items and see if you have a proposal for fixing retro action items

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is why I call scrum masters scrumlords.

Thankfully my boss is hands off so I took a walk and then worked on an internal tooling side project that really only I will appreciate.

Scrumlords I love it

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Quitting my last job for this one might be the best thing I've done since I tricked my wife into marrying down.

My mental and physical health has improved a ton.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As someone who hasn't worked anywhere with a profit-motive in over a decade, I don't know how you guys do it. Truly...