I hate agile/scrum because...

dandy72 · July 12 2023 - that's my magic bullet.

Nice. Exactly one day before I turn 51.

trønderen

If I understand your right: If I am under a certain age, I am not granted the freedom to make up my own mind about the value of agile/scrum. Being young requires of me that I embrace it. You are not telling from which age you grant me the right to make my own judgements on the matter. I really hope that I am above that age. Geek and Poke: Advanced Scrum[^]

Slacker007

Perhaps you either don't understand the context to which I replied to John or you mistakenly are replying to me on another members post, because I completely do not understand your comments in relation to my post.:confused::confused::confused:

trønderen

When someone writes a post declaring rather negative feelings about agile/scrum, and you reply by suggesting that he may be near (or into) retirement, I find it quite obvious that you by that means to suggest that "The reason why you hate agile/scrum is that you are too old. If you had been younger, you wouldn't have written such an agile/scrum-critical post". I really see no other good reason why you would be referring to #realJSOP's retirement.

Slacker007

No, I was not suggesting that John was too old. If you know the history of John's employer and working environment, it is full of frustrations and misery a lot of the time. So, when I mentioned he was close to retirement, I meant that he will soon not have to deal with all the crap he deals with. John, I am sure, is more than capable of working in agile/scrum, regardless of his age. Cheers. :java:

realJSOP

Slacker007 wrote:

John, I am sure, is more than capable of working in agile/scrum, regardless of his age.

Hey hey hey! Let's not get carried away with assumptions. :)

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

realJSOP

I try to do that, but when we go into sprint planning meanings where we point new stories, I always get overridden when I declare a high points value. I know more about the code base than anyone else working on it, and when I try to give a given task 100 points, then goddammit, it's because I know that chunk of code is complex (which all of our code seems to be). But we're pressured to underestimate the points value. Every time. I hate agile/scrum.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

Andreas Mertens

I totally understand. This project I was working on, was a total ball of mud originally written by the "architect" of the system before I was brought in. In the previous sprint, I managed to sneak in a large refactoring start, but of course caught flack for that. But I've been pushing for a refactoring push for the past year, and we finally were given this last sprint to do a massive refactoring and code cleanup effort. Of course, that's when I was transferred to another project/team. I have to wonder how this project I am leaving will now fare...

realJSOP

The apps I’ve been working on are all moving to a GOTS, so it doesn’t make sense to care anymore. Ticks me off…

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013