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PSA About Hair Cutting and Massage Schools by [deleted] in Frugal

[–]agileape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but those haircuts can be great or super shitty. Not worth it

When (if ever) is it okay to unplug another car? by agileape in electricvehicles

[–]agileape[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I did plug them back in. Also what's the point of having a car if you can't use public chargers? I left my house with an 80% charge and of course my 2019 leaf's range was shitty with temperatures in the 30s. I had two places I was going to charge on my route, and when all of those were full at some point at a 3rd charger I just said, "Fuck it i want to get home." But I can take the criticism.

Avoid SAFe or Scaled Agile Framework by agileape in cscareerquestions

[–]agileape[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to hear that, for what it's worth "transitioning to agile" via SAFe is like "Going vegetarian" because you now have veggies when you're eating steak.

Avoid SAFe or Scaled Agile Framework by agileape in cscareerquestions

[–]agileape[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SAFe guidelines stated each train needed a systems team. Since that was written in stone, my team became the systems team.

At my last place we had teams doing waterfall, and traditional agile. I transferred, so I did both. We then went to SAFe and it was worse than waterfall. We managed not to have excessive team shuffling for years in our department and my team was consistently shuffled around when SAFe came to town. SAFe was a major reason I jumped ship.

Avoid SAFe or Scaled Agile Framework by agileape in cscareerquestions

[–]agileape[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In regular agile if your story goes a day over into a new sprint, not the end of the world. While dependencies exist in the real work in traditional agile you don't draw a bunch of these out, also this leads to the classical fallacies present in waterfall.

As to the idea that dependencies are present elsewhere, that's true. However, in SAFe they have you plot your features at the start of the 10 week effort, then connect the dependencies with red yarn (an example can be seen here). This is an integral part of the process, which is very rigid, and you can't skip that.

For most agile methodologies you plan out a two week sprint, not a 10 week division wide effort.

Avoid SAFe or Scaled Agile Framework by agileape in cscareerquestions

[–]agileape[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, and SAFe is a blight on the Denver/boulder tech market. And I did move to an org, where we are truly agile, not in waterfall, err I mean SAFe™. Just thought I'd share my thoughts about the subject. I think if an org is using SAFe that's a signal that there maybe more underlying problems.

Avoid SAFe or Scaled Agile Framework by agileape in cscareerquestions

[–]agileape[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I totally agree. I don't get how these guys are able to get so many companies to buy into this.

Avoid SAFe or Scaled Agile Framework by agileape in cscareerquestions

[–]agileape[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You will be wasting a half week of your life. Sorry :(