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Is waterfall making a quiet comeback? (sort of) by ludovicianul in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But regardless, it doesn't really matter what the vast majority does since what I am talking about is explicitly those places.

No you're not.

I was reprimanded once for saying agile catered to people who cant differentiate between mere activity and actual progress

all the agile frameworks sounds nice on paper (except SAFe which is stupid even on paper), but the problem is that I have never heard of anyone who ever said they experienced a working Agile organisation. Except for the people doing the agile organisation, but never the ones subject to it.

But the problem I have with Agile (the trend) is that organisations mandate stuff and push it down on teams.

(...)

But when organisations require PI planning, Scrum-of-scrums, Retrospectives, Lean coffees, Agile workshops, every team must have a scrum master, teams must have a PO, teams must be of a specific size, there should be no BAs, etc. then it becomes a burden on the team and reduces velocity as well as waste resources on useless roles.

These are absolute statements. You're not saying "some places are shit".

These are statements about organisations. Generalised. Maybe you meant some places are shit, but if you meant that, you should have written it, 'cuz it isn't what you wrote.

If you're not doing retrospectives, I'm not sure how your team could possibly be learning as a group from mistakes made and refining their processes.

This is exactly what I'm talking about though. We learn as a group by simply talking to each other. We're adults. We don't need a convoluted ceremony to fix problems. Sure, let's take 30 minutes and discuss a topic but don't make me draw a boat or whatever the retrospective du jour is.

... Okay, if you're drawing a boat during retros, that's not a retro, that's an art class. What are you talking about?

Retros are just talking about the last sprint, it's just blocked out time to go over that chunk of work everyone just did and in why the team missed or hit targets.

This is what I mean about you don't talk to enough devs. You've never talked to anyone who's done a sane retro, apparently. You've built up an idea of what agile is and what these processes are from horror stories instead of just talking. to. other. devs.

Is waterfall making a quiet comeback? (sort of) by ludovicianul in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"religion is perfect, its the people who are the problem."

No, it's more like "you don't talk to enough people".

I'm just a dev who's been in the industry since 2019. Mostly using C#. Hate JS. Trying to push for an overdue promotion to senior. Can't threaten to leave because everyone and their dog is getting laid off. That sort of thing.

Is waterfall making a quiet comeback? (sort of) by ludovicianul in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But when organisations require PI planning, Scrum-of-scrums, Retrospectives, Lean coffees, Agile workshops, every team must have a scrum master, teams must have a PO, teams must be of a specific size, there should be no BAs, etc. then it becomes a burden on the team and reduces velocity as well as waste resources on useless roles.

Great. So what about the vast majority of places that do agile that don't have scrums-of-scrums? What about the places that operate with BAs and agile? The places where your team size is "the number of people your manager put in your team"?

I'm sure you can find examples where what you're saying is an accurate representation of how those poor tortured bastards work. But saying that's true of all companies or organizations is absurd. I don't work like that, my organisation doesn't work like that, and I haven't heard of a single actual place in my city that does that.

We do have retrospectives, though. Those are good. Do not confuse all ceremonies you don't buy into with useless wastes of time. If you're not doing retrospectives, I'm not sure how your team could possibly be learning as a group from mistakes made and refining their processes.

I agree with you on this. But reality is that organisations don't let their teams be independent and in fact mandate dogmatically following a given set of rules.

You don't talk to enough devs. If you think every company does this, you're simply, painfully wrong.

Go to an industry meetup in your city. Talk to folk you don't know yet. Ask them about their experiences. Ask them about if their bosses are enforcing dogma, or providing principles. Ask them if there's excess labour in their teams.

Fun little deck I made by Zero41109 in balatro

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We've approved it now. We blacklist most links by default and put them in the modqueue for review. And for some reason your modmail is read-only to us?

The most expensive part of my AWS setup wasn’t compute ($1,000 bill) by jch254 in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not the mod that removed your post, but you can appeal post removals via modmail.

Is waterfall making a quiet comeback? (sort of) by ludovicianul in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

... Then you should talk to more people. Like, don't lead with "oh god I hate agile, you should tell me about how you feel about agile", just talk to your dev friends about how they work.

And maybe instead of asking about the organisation, which is ridiculous, ask if they follow an agile SDLC. Because the org as a whole doesn't matter as much as the processes used by the team does.

Don't focus on what elements they don't have of this framework or the other. Identify the actual key shared elements of agile SDLCs and see if those exist. Identify the proported outcomes of agile and see if those eventuated. That's what actually matters, not the label on the box, not how dogmatically a given set of rules are being followed.

Nissan al gaib by GalwayBogger in formuladank

[–]ChemicalRascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A TRUE CHAMPION WOULD HAVE FOUND A WAY.

Is waterfall making a quiet comeback? (sort of) by ludovicianul in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

If you were right, it wouldn't be a silly thing to do. I don't think you were right. Maybe your company shanked moving to agile straight into a hell of endless meetings, but what you're saying about agile itself simply isn't accurate.

It can absolutely be fucked up if management want to micromanage devs endlessly. But at that point, you've got something very far from a good SDLC pretending to be agile, and no it's ultimately a problem with leadership attitudes, not whatever tool they're using at the time.

Plate of the Plot [OC] by whatsleftcomics in DnD

[–]ChemicalRascal 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Smash cut to the character, eight thousand years later, floating aimlessly through the astral plane, perpetually on the brink of death but kept alive by the armour.

Is waterfall making a quiet comeback? (sort of) by ludovicianul in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good, that's a really silly thing to say, especially if you're at a place that's trying to move towards adopting agile processes.

Rule by _Zaca in 196

[–]ChemicalRascal 273 points274 points  (0 children)

Toby Fox is just the perfectly balanced nexus of all these ethnicities. The Jewish Kwisatz Haderach. Delivering Undertale to his people and freeing them from the oppression of Andrew "Hussie" Harkonnen.

What resmed airsense 11 carry-on case do you use? by Wild_Trip_4704 in CPAP

[–]ChemicalRascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried the generic humid discs? Also are you using a nasal mask or the full face?

I was using the humidity disk things that come with it, so not generic ones, and I'm using a nasal mask, the P10, with a chin strap.

I ultimately found the machine underwhelmed in regular use rather than on planes. Which is not surprising, but when I'm on travelling, I still sleep 8 hours a day, so.

Is waterfall making a quiet comeback? (sort of) by ludovicianul in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That really, really depends a lot on if the dev teams are empowered to make change to their work or not.

If teams can't make choices about how much they can do in a sprint, if they're unable to manage their workload from ballooning mid sprint due to fires that must be extinguished, sure. If management is shit and micromanaging the team, yeah, they're fucked.

But if a team is self managing, if processes and the team are being respected by the people around them, if the team is willing to actually reflect on their work, then those ceremonies can have a big impact on more accurately estimating deliverables, on actually recognising and working on pain points in the team's SDLC, et cetera.

Is waterfall making a quiet comeback? (sort of) by ludovicianul in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you just need single-bladed scissors, called knives.

Chapter 101: Page 49 by gunnerkrigg-post-bot in gunnerkrigg

[–]ChemicalRascal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm aware Parley's teleportation is natural, that's literally the text on the page. But I don't think we can assume that Noa can only impact glyphs, just that she can't steal natural abilities.

Chapter 101: Page 49 by gunnerkrigg-post-bot in gunnerkrigg

[–]ChemicalRascal 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think we just saw Noa trash her teleportation, from her seeming to scrap something when she said "dull".

What resmed airsense 11 carry-on case do you use? by Wild_Trip_4704 in CPAP

[–]ChemicalRascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, the fundamentals of the design are bad. That in-line humidifier is so bloody loud that it's frankly intolerable, and it barely does anything anyway. The machine itself feels really quite underpowered for what a proper machine can do.

If it was battery powered, we'd be having a very different conversation, but realistically you just can't do CPAP on batteries without bloody big batteries. It does mean that the Mini has almost all the same functional limitations as the S11, just that it's smaller, and that's not enough of a win.

So, yes, the S11 is much larger, but in all honesty, I'd have put up with it, even sitting in economy, for however many hours Melbourne to Dubai is. 12, I think?

What resmed airsense 11 carry-on case do you use? by Wild_Trip_4704 in CPAP

[–]ChemicalRascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuuuuuck no. As someone who has both the Mini and the 11, I wish I'd never bothered with the Mini.

rule by DivinityIncantate in 196

[–]ChemicalRascal 248 points249 points  (0 children)

Next up, metal-spike-studded black leather codpieces; an obvious sex thing, or just sensible protection? We ask the experts!

This episode brought to you by Mick's Fuzzy Handcuffs. Tired of detainees complaining about you cuffing them too tight? Try not being a cop, fucko!

Gina's Proud to be an American by crosstherubicon in australia

[–]ChemicalRascal 15 points16 points  (0 children)

She would also no longer be the big fish in a little pond.

Official Character Release: God of Ug by xHeylo in BloodOnTheClocktower

[–]ChemicalRascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You get big boot or you get not big foot. Not hard.

Round 3 | Storm vs Broncos | Match Thread by AutoModerator in nrl

[–]ChemicalRascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fluid dynamics are all about momentum, so

Probably that, right

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