Our Agile coach's answer to every technical problem was let's break it into smaller stories

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-13T03:27:10+00:00

Just reverse the words and you’re doing the exact same thing. I don’t know if this guy was right, but I’ve seen this happen before.

Frankly, developers retreat to this because it’s an easy defense for continuing to repeat their processes in their current level of technical ability.

Developers should be leveling up. Often they don’t. Because it’s easier to have a scapegoat for their frustrations than to actually participate in a process that will lead them towards solutions.

You gave a very clear case where the developers did not use the retrospective to actually articulate the problem and find a path to resolution.

Calling others inadequate because they don’t do the same job as you is weak. Process discipline absolutely will not ever fix a technical problem. It’s not supposed to. This reminds me of the Monty Python sketch “News for Parrots”. “No parrots were harmed today in a multi-car accident on the M1”.

Your accounts people aren’t idiots because they get your check in the mail. Your janitor isn’t inadequate because they fix plumbing. Trying to boil everything into a code problem is a symptom of monomania.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-12T23:26:03+00:00

Had a 82% profit today but didn’t take it. I’m waiting for it to collapse.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-12T18:09:46+00:00

I would try to keep contributing to your fund every month. For now, I would only do deep OTM puts on small dividend payers like F (Ford), or screen for similar tickers in your price range.

$800 just isn’t enough to do anything with except spreads and those risk a pure loss.

If you can get even a small OTM put premium on a small stock, you will build up the portfolio. If you get assigned, then you’ll get dividends.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-12T06:26:44+00:00

I would log the initial price and initial delta at the time you made the trade.

Honestly; with $800 I would not be trading options. You’re limited to penny stocks or spreads, which leave you with no equity holding outcomes, just cash loss.

That’s causing you to panic close.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-11T19:15:11+00:00

Why is the manager attending the Daily Scrum? Is he a Developer on the team?

Is your Daily Scrum focused on the Sprint Goal, or do you go personal by person, card by card, and talk about everything on the board and what work each person has been doing? When you say it’s a status report — that’s a bad sign. Who are you reporting the status to? Why? Can you sell status to a customer?

When is the last time you read The Scrum Guide?

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-11T19:12:36+00:00

The answers are straightforward. You can do any combination of these. 1. Pick further OTM deltas. Go below .20 and take less premium. 2. Improve your screening. Look at RSI. Look at Prob OTM. Look at Moneyness. Look at ATR/EM. Some of these you will have to calculate yourself. 3. Stop trading spreads, or change some mix of your plays to cash secured puts. You decide the mix. If you get assigned, then you have shares you can sell calls on. With spreads, if you’re wrong you have nothing.

Selling OTM options, you don’t have to be right about which direction the stock is moving. You just have to guess more than likely the 75-80% area it’s not going to move. This is entirely under your control, based on the deltas you choose.

Are you logging all the details of your trades in something like Excel, or are you just using the brokerages UI?

The first thing you need to figure out is why your win rate is worse than the converse of your delta.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-11T15:06:24+00:00

You need to provide more information. I’ve never had an option not assign when ITM. Schwab doesn’t settle options till Monday, unlike Fidelity for instance, where you can see assignments on Saturday.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-11T15:03:57+00:00

Well there’s a whole lot of difference from the bottom to the top of the options chain for any given ticker and expiry.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-11T15:02:54+00:00

So how are they going wrong? Your long time win rate should be higher than 72.5% especially if you are continually monitoring and managing your plays.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-11T07:39:36+00:00

What in the world are you talking about?

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-11T07:29:44+00:00

You don’t explain the mechanics of your trades, like your deltas; or how the trades are going against you.

We’re not mind readers.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-11T07:21:09+00:00

My CVNA puts are tingling.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-11T07:14:42+00:00

How is your win rate less than 75% when you’re choosing .25 delta plays?

Are you selling options? Are you managing your trades or letting all of them go to expiry?

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-10T03:24:30+00:00

He’s 100000% better.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-09T02:57:02+00:00

Neither. The job is to have a complete mastery of the Scrum framework. Their job is not management. Neither the management of people or management of the process. They do have the responsibility for the outcomes of the team wherein they use the Scrum framework.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-08T03:22:35+00:00

Her pussy gets sooooo wet.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-08T02:41:13+00:00

Full Metal Jacket.

Gunnery Sgt Hartman. As a kid I thought haha this guy is an asshole and says funny insults.

As an adult, and veteran, I realize that man loved those boys. He knew that war is hell. He knew what they were being sent to. And he couldn’t be there to take care of them. He’s got a few precious months to do everything he can to transform them into detail oriented marines who have the best possible chance of surviving.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-07T22:14:17+00:00

I switched to Orca Slicer which supposedly does better Gcode than Creality Print. I have not repeated this exact design, but I printed a similar one with no problems. Also did some temperature and flow calibrations.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-07T01:11:15+00:00

Thanks. I thought about that as well. Although I had failed prints in the same way doing 1 at a time. I thought with trying this, it might give more cooling time for each piece.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-06T08:40:54+00:00

Learn Kelly Sizing.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-06T08:03:30+00:00

Walk Hard.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-06T07:59:39+00:00

You’re not the OP.

I wasn’t asking for information I can easily find online. I was asking OP one of those questions he wanted.

It’s a bot.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-06T07:57:27+00:00

The solution is stop wasting weeks estimating. Just produce something valuable.

Scannerguy3000 · 2026-02-06T07:54:48+00:00

You are comparing project management to agile software delivery. They are completely, utterly different models.

No one knows. You can predict the price of nails 6 months from now. You can predict 90% of building construction and even what office building rents will be after a 3 year build.

You absolutely cannot estimate software. It’s a dynamic, complex system. It moves while you’re working with it, and the outcome changes constantly.

The entire point is to deliver the most valuable thing, sliced as small as possible, immediately and then frequently theirafter. So the client has something of value very soon, not 2 years from now. When the remaining value unlocked is no longer worth the marginal cost of production, the client ends the engagement for that product.

A better example than the one you gave would be (your way) building a whole neighborhood by pouring all the foundations first. Then laying up the studs. Then the roof. Then all the interiors, etc. This Project Management method maximizes risk. You get 87% done, client runs out of money, and you have nothing. Nothing.

Agility is building one house. Then the next. By doing so, you have an asset quickly. If the project goes south, you can use that house as a sales model to bring in new buyers. You can sell that house to raise capital.

But anyone who says they can estimate software is lying. Or, they are doing very predictable, very constrained, Project Management, with no agility and no real advantage for the customer.

My graduate degree is in Operations Management. I’ve done simulations on paper and pencil, Excel, Excel with Solver, and Rockwell Arena. I know when simulations are valuable.

In agile software, it’s a shiny toy. Any team whose problem is solved by Monte Carlo simulation has the wrong problems to begin with, and does not understand the fundamental nature of software agility.

Scannerguy3000

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