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Both Agile and Scrum *can* be effective. Unfortunately, both are often poorly understood and poorly managed because, as others have noted, these methods work well when used as designed - with small teams unhampered by much bureaucracy or need for oversight and that have a single focused product with a small enough number of stakeholders to allow for the fluidity of requirements to not crash the machine.
They are not meant for teams of 10-20 or multiple teams working on the same part of the same product or products with multiple layers of stakeholders or bureaucracies....or for that matter, larger, fatter products with too many moving pieces to be kept in a single engineer's head. They also are not meant to be implemented "in place of" planning or "in place of" solid development practice.
But Execs like fast and Bean Counters really like fast. They like the word sprint because they can pretend that it means working 70hrs/wk to get an unplanned or last minute product change out the door. They also like that they can pretend it means that they don't have to pay a separate person to actually manage their projects.
next thing is the surrounding bureaucracy; if they musn't be able to install software on the build system, and the peer takes weeks to install a file utility RPM version 5.11, or it takes weeks to install a publicly accessible webserver...
Wed Oct 02 2013 10:52:39 AM EDT from Sig @ Uncensoredjust to get laid off 3 days later...
Ugh. That sucks.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Thu Oct 03 2013 01:01:28 EDT from ax25 @ UncensoredWed Oct 02 2013 10:52:39 AM EDT from Sig @ Uncensoredjust to get laid off 3 days later...Ugh. That sucks.Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Just the potential result of uploading closest source programs to AWS.
Next problem is, you probably won't even be able to ssh there.
Also, it's hard to apply for other jobs when my resume has to be declassified first and those people are furloughed.
Oct 4 2013 4:14pm from Sig @uncnsrd
Just received a phone call. To maximize my chances of being considered
"mission essential," I have to cancel the second week of my leave and
report back in on Monday. This does not please me overly much.
And now leave is uncancelled. This leaves me with a great deal of confidence, I assure you.
Just the potential result of uploading closest source programs to
AWS.
Next problem is, you probably won't even be able to ssh there.
Real men compile to bytecode ;) And SSH is easily dealt with (Rightscale)
just to get laid off 3 days later...
dothebart can't get laid off. He's in Europe. Once you hire someone there you're stuck with them forever.
Fri Oct 04 2013 22:12:45 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensoredjust to get laid off 3 days later...
dothebart can't get laid off. He's in Europe. Once you hire someone there you're stuck with them forever.
well, when messing with company policy, thats probably a whole other thing.
however, yes, unless you offensive do something wrong (stealing, destructing stuff), and the company doesn' t close, its hard.
There is a system called "Abmahnung" when you do something wrong by not following best practices; 3 times that, and you can count yourself as fired too.
there is however a case of a mechanic master that got fired in the age of 50 because he wouldn't educate on modern cars; so staying up to date is another requirement not to be fired.
I don't like your nose anymore, you may stay at home now is not as easy.