There’s a 2:3 ratio of time-estimators to doers at my current company and the devs have to spend about 20-25% of their time estimating their time.
I had enough pull to make a “hit squad” unit that “just executed” and everyone was stunned at how we managed to pull off a from scratch release in “just” 8 months, honestly compared to previous companies that was slow but I also had to train up 5 junior/mids who had never worked with Go or Kubernetes at the same time, saving the company potentially millions in expenses and making a product they are already selling to clients.
Now they’ve assigned a product owner and have asked us to start doing daily’s so I’m going to quit.
SCRUM is middle-management capture and all the middle-managers know they are not necessary.
The evils of modern capitalism really reminds me of the only system that offered an alternative to the evils of modern capitalism.