From 16f7193ab79456430cd8ef633684c032b1ce838b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rayfrankenstein <50811667+rayfrankenstein@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 23:24:27 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 76e0fc9..3b30e23 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ I’d argue that spending time on activities like scrum poker or sprint planning --- “Generally the problem is that management wants this idea you call -just in time planning’ to happen all the time, and even believes it to be synonymous to Agile. Meanwhile the software team is saying, that's fundamentally at odds with the entire premise of how to write software. Saying you want to produce software that was always planned at the drop of a hat (which is what management wants) is like saying you want to chisel Mount Rushmore but you won't tell whose faces should be on it until right at the end. It's just not a coherent goal. My hope with the barriers to anti-quality thing is that we would take things like this, where regardless of what management feels entitled to, and make it sacred and inviolable that the obviously stupid and incoherent things can be vetoed by the feet-on-the-ground people doing the actual work.”--mlthoughts2018, [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17186591](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17186591) +--- +"Well said. Agile is a cancer for our entire industry. The impression I have based on a ton of anecdotal evidence is that the entire industry is slowing down in how much gets done vs how many resources are thrown at a project. Agile is a huge cause, in part because it creates a number of software jobs for people that have no tech knowledge whatsoever who then lower entire teams to their level of ineptitude."--Rumble45, [How does agile work at your company? Is the way my company is doing it unusual?](https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/81z1fg/how_does_agile_work_at_your_company_is_the_way_my/) + --- "Scrum is a bit like communism, it only works in theory. Here's what ruins it in practice. After a successful scrum, managers demand an increase in velocity. Scrum estimates quickly become deadlines. Developers stop helping each other because that's not visible on the board. Developers say tasks are easy when the know they won't be working on them. If your first task goes badly then you are reminded that you are behind schedule every day in the scrum meeting. Developers look for jobs where scrum is not used.", Paul McCarthy, [https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/410482/how-do-i-prevent-scrum-from-turning-great-developers-into-average-developers](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/410482/how-do-i-prevent-scrum-from-turning-great-developers-into-average-developers)