On that subject, does anybody hate the term “Sprint” as much as I do?
“Sprints” are extremely quick events that last tens of seconds and are done at most once a day, but more often (in competition) a few times a month, or a few times in a day every few months.
You don’t sprint for a full week every week. That’s a marathon, maybe an ultra-marathon.
From experience most hate from project management systems come from people just don’t understand it and implement it poorly. Usually the miss the point. Unfortunately those are the people who need the structure the most.
“Well, to get people to consider if our method as potentially applicable to their situation and needs, we need to give it descriptive names that sound dynamic and cool. If it’s not right for their needs they’ll disregard it of course.”
The business idiots. “Hmmm, yes, fancy words, trendy, apply it immediately to everything so I can say I “over saw implementation” on my resume next time I hop jobs”
Screenshotting a text post on the Fediverse, to post an opaque image on the Fediverse.
The post was right there to be shared.
Ok, but could one cross post a mastodon toot to lemmy?
If you tag a lemmy community in a mastodon toot it posts to the community.
Dunno if there’s a way to repost other people’s toots to lemmy though, never tried
i fucking hate daily standups. such a pointless waste of time.
Especially when they’re called “standups” but everybody sits down because they typically last an hour or so.
I did have actual stand ups once, after coming back from China and all I could think of was “shit I hope they don’t make us sing the corp’s anthem at the end!” like they do over there…
Please explain this corporate anthem further…
Kind of like what they do at Walmart?
Wait, do they seriously have corporate anthems in China? I thought that only happened in the sprawl trilogy o.O
So that’s Agile AOP then.
You forgot “We use JIRA so we are agile now. I assigned all tickets so get to work and be done at the end of the
weeksprint”The one I like is “we have no fucking idea what we’re trying to build other than a vague problem statement, so start testing already. This is Agile.”
”Our plan is to continuously make up new shit along the way and hope we eventually get something we can deliver”
It’s agile if the plan is constantly reviewed with every new information in mind and you can change what you are working in to better implement it.
If you do do Scrum, that’s almost never the case.
I had the misfortune of working under SAFE – Scalee agile or something. It was waterfall wearing a festive and extremely expensive Agile mask.
I think more than 60 devs all working in the same codebase, a trading platform, and doing planning sprints individually, playing planning poker to estimate feature of features of features up to three months in the future. Most ridiculous thing I ever participated in and that says a lot.
I’m not super fond of SAFE either
waterfall wearing a festive and extremely expensive Agile mask.
Is exactly the experience I had in my last two shops.
Is there such a thing as a region called Agile in france? Or am i missing out the point of the joke?
It’s a meme format (a snowclone), of the form “It’s only X if it comes from the X region of France, otherwise it’s just sparking Y”. The original was talking about Champagne (and sparkling wine), which is why it’s France.
There’s lots of versions out there, of varying quality.
I think the “region of France” section is optional. As long as it has the punchline “otherwise it’s just sparkling” Y
I guess it is a reference to champagne. If wine does not come from the region “Champagne” it is not allowed to be called Champagne but just white wine. Even if it tastes just the same.
just white wine
Come on you’re going to hurt the wine snobs with this statement. Champagne is a sparkling wine, it doesn’t taste like any white wine. It’s more like a bitter Sprite with alcohol in it.
Same with Cognac and Armagnac. And Port. And probably a bunch of others.
Interesting, thanks!
Oooh ok thx a lot!
