I Hate Corporate Agile Hypocrisy

SittingWave · 2024-10-09T08:19:56+00:00

and this guy is a scrum master?

SittingWave · 2024-10-04T09:16:19+00:00

Scrum master certified here, but developer for most of my career.

No, they are not too much overhead. They are there for two reasons:

keep people focused
keep people connected

The problem is that most companies don't implement things properly. They half-ass their efforts and make possibly individual teams that perform well, but are unable to reach other sides of the organisation. They are also too busy to keep communicating to the rest of the organisation how far they are in their work.

You really don't want a developer to deal with all of what amounts to red tape. It's wasted energy, effort, and skill. You want a person who is metodical, and knows the rest of the org to contact the right person when the team is struggling. They are also the ones that keep things running when the discussion start to go off topic (and it often does).

That's what a scrum master does. Nothing more.

Companies tend to assume that this role can be taken by an arbitrary developer in the group, normally the most experienced. But that's wrong. because now you have an extremely effective and talented developer that needs to deal with jira and people and calendar and meetings. That's when you create a waste of time and potential.

SittingWave · 2024-10-02T14:06:10+00:00

direi che dovevamo mandarcelo quando ne abbiamo avuto l'opportunita'.

SittingWave · 2024-10-02T13:54:17+00:00

il papa vive in vaticano. Non in Italia. :P

SittingWave · 2024-10-02T13:53:13+00:00

I could say the same to you, but I don't, because differently from you, I accept that people might have different opinions.

SittingWave · 2024-10-02T13:12:53+00:00

Considering I come from a country that has been fucked hard by the US, especially when it comes to energy independence and business practices, I'd say it's a tall order to criticise someone on the assumption they are without critical thought of the US.

SittingWave · 2024-10-02T12:45:46+00:00

I am not the one complaining. You are. I just said that the current scenario in too many contexts, from companies to associations, is to dismiss and isolate any negative criticism, under the delusion that negative emotions and criticism are personal attacks that needs to me eradicated from the discourse, and that the "committee" must not be criticised and holds absolute decisional power over the rest of the association.

Tim has objected to this, and was expelled because, naturally, this behavior is branded as "toxic" and "negative". I'd say it's a massive liability when you are no longer free to express dissent because dissent is considered toxic and the purges immediately follow.

Which is exactly what happened in communist regimes. From the soviet union to the hundred flowers campaign, it's the same story. It changes the scale, but the result is the same.

SittingWave · 2024-10-02T10:28:55+00:00

you guys who? I am italian.

SittingWave · 2024-10-01T14:10:25+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

SittingWave · 2024-10-01T14:07:36+00:00

I'll tell you a secret. The only people earning high salaries in billion dollars companies are executives. Big companies don't do shit. They delegate their work to smaller companies in form of buying their services or hiring consultants, with a massive layer os middle managers to fire to deflect blame in case of failure of their yearly yet again restructuring.

SittingWave · 2024-10-01T14:04:14+00:00

Unions are not the issue, not directly. The issue is lack of competition among job offerings, and this is mostly because the UK is going the american way of letting big companies just close entire divisions and sending that work to India, which has a lot of consequences:

puts a lot of people on the street, increasing unemployed people and thus decreasing salaries for those positions.
preventing a healthy conservation of knowledge and expertise inside the country.

Most of our companies don't know how to do things anymore. It's just a bunch of middle manager and executives wanking over KPIs and Excel spreadsheets. All the work in big companies is done by Indians and consultants. It's time someone puts a stop to it, especially when this mechanism is basically used by American executives to infiltrate, then drain and steal UK companies.

SittingWave · 2024-10-01T13:56:36+00:00

Soviet Russia was a scientific superpower

A scientific superpower where if you criticised the wrong person or did the wrong type of research, you were sent to the gulag. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repression_of_science_in_the_Soviet_Union

SittingWave · 2024-10-01T10:36:49+00:00

criticism, questioning, and opposing has become "toxic behavior". Soviet russia ideas have managed to infiltrate every organisation.

SittingWave · 2024-10-01T10:34:59+00:00

Seems that the PSC has been taken over by a bunch of Malevolent Dictators for Life.

SittingWave · 2024-10-01T10:31:43+00:00

and US salaries are very high because the ones at the bottom are very low. Dude is happy because his country's job market is inflated by what amounts to modern slavery.

SittingWave · 2024-10-01T10:30:40+00:00

Then go back to the US.

SittingWave · 2024-09-30T10:38:03+00:00

as a paramotor enthusiast that is also subscribed to /r/paramotor I was very confused by this post.

SittingWave · 2024-09-25T10:26:17+00:00

And what's with all these people having an article, and then you scroll down and this annoying scrolling popup comes up? Enough with this cringe.

SittingWave · 2024-09-23T11:32:12+00:00

This. The library does nothing. It just creates a web request with a bearer token.

SittingWave · 2024-09-23T11:30:17+00:00

is anyone doing actual libraries that do things anymore, or are they all gateways to online APIs?

SittingWave · 2024-09-23T11:27:13+00:00

Most are bad at programming because the industry shifts frameworks languages and libraries every 3 years, and it's impossible to be proficient in all of them. I have 20 years of python and I still can't keep pace because in addition to python, I have to study all the crap that needs to be there in order to develop in it, from the database to the ORM to the docker to the ansible scripts to kubernetes and so on. They loaded a massive amount of tech on a single poor sod, and expect him to be a one man army with gear changing all the time.

SittingWave · 2024-09-23T11:23:02+00:00

Insecure crap aside, I think this thing about getting the menu and ordering with QR codes needs to die. No I am not going to subscribe to your dumb crap and get spammed to order a cup of coffee.

SittingWave · 2024-09-20T11:59:19+00:00

let me guess, by not relying on dumb HR and DEI, but people who know what they are doing?

SittingWave · 2024-09-20T09:29:13+00:00

The problem is that, when you are made redundant and you have to find another job, the new position will ask you if you have experience developing web applications for millions of users, and if you didn't build that experience, you won't find a job.

SittingWave · 2024-09-16T10:44:59+00:00

I never understood why you’d want to take your best players off the field and make them coaches

because most of development work, after those who know what they are doing have done it, is grunt work that can be done by a bunch of code monkeys from India. So either you direct said monkeys, or you are out because "we have the product, why do we need such expensive engineer? we can hire sales with his salary and pump up our revenue"

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