#sclerotic-development · Louche Cannon

The Scrumlord regime | deadSimpleTech

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 14:24:53 +0200

Bookmarked https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/scrumlord_regime

This leads to one very obvious conclusion: you cannot afford to have managers who might even remotely identify with the people whom they're managing. It doesn't necessarily matter that engineers are having their brains turned to sludge, producing slowly and insipidly and getting almost no work done. Managers who understand and care about engineering work might find common ground with the people they're managing and push back against your ideas. Even worse, they might actually understand that what you're asking for is immoral, impossible or insane.

Jason Yip: "The biggest problems we deal w…" - Mastodon

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 11:46:19 +0200

Bookmarked https://mastodon.online/@jchyip/111903910883404436#.

Less is more agile | Tales about Software Engineering

Sun, 04 Sep 2022 08:55:29 +0200

Bookmarked https://beny23.github.io/posts/my_take_on_engineering_room_9/

Agile has come to mean doing half of scrum poorly and using Jira

I quite like no bullshit estimation - basically there’s only three types of story:

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TFB (Too Fucking Big)
NFC (No Fucking Clue)

Why user stories belong in the garbage - Browser London

Sat, 03 Sep 2022 13:43:05 +0200

Bookmarked https://www.browserlondon.com/blog/2022/08/30/why-user-stories-belong-in-the-garbage/

Kitemaker blog - Issue trackers considered harmful

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 13:15:54 +0200

Bookmarked https://kitemaker.co/blog/issue-trackers-considered-harmful