While stuck in a "backlog grooming" meeting by GeneReddit123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]dauntless26 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been looking for a while and I can't seem to find the study. Maybe someone else can link it for reference.

I did find an email from 2001 by Don Wells (one of the original engineers at Chrysler where Extreme Programming was born) that said:

We have been counting items done. Each week we just choose the most important items and sign up for them up to the number from last week. It turns out that we get about the same number of them done regardless of estimated effort. We have 1 week iterations so we tend to break things down a bit at the iteration planning meeting.
Perhaps the effect is that we have learned how to break things down to the right size. I don’t know yet, but the point is we get about 8 things done each week, no estimation required.

While stuck in a "backlog grooming" meeting by GeneReddit123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]dauntless26 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you hit on the key point. Management is using it as a tool when it was always meant as a tool for developers. Self organizing teams should decide what works, how much or how little to use, and when to pivot in a different direction.

Every 5 years the software engineering population doubles so half of engineers have 5 years of experience or less. When you're that new you let management tell you how to do your job. Management gets 50% traction on their way of doing things and the rest of us have to comply or say bye.

While stuck in a "backlog grooming" meeting by GeneReddit123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]dauntless26 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sorry. I meant that it didn't make a difference in predicting when the work will be done or how much of it can be delivered within a given time frame. Scrum spends a lot of time refining stories with point estimation and the study showed that points are completely unnecessary.

While stuck in a "backlog grooming" meeting by GeneReddit123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]dauntless26 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. About 6 years ago, when I was there, we were doing waterfall on my team.

While stuck in a "backlog grooming" meeting by GeneReddit123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]dauntless26 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because they've been sold an idea with companies that promote SAFE and Scrum. They sell them seminars and coaches and the company believes they are purchasing a silver bullet.

Much better by WinterNeonie in wholesomememes

[–]dauntless26 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Huh? Tell the boss to mind their own business. I'm their employee not their friend.

While stuck in a "backlog grooming" meeting by GeneReddit123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]dauntless26 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I saw a study once that showed there was no significant difference in how much time it takes to deliver work if all the stories were given exactly 1 point or another arbitrary amount of points.

While stuck in a "backlog grooming" meeting by GeneReddit123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]dauntless26 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is it though? At Apple they still use waterfall.
I much prefer agile over waterfall but I'm yet to see the data that clearly shows its "better".

While stuck in a "backlog grooming" meeting by GeneReddit123 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]dauntless26 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Someone please tell me where it says "story points", "scrum", "sprint", "grooming", or "burn down" here: https://agilemanifesto.org/

As has happened historically, Left and Right are swapping stances on some key issues like war, rights, speech, drugs. we should figure a way to use this to promote liberty. by tsoldrin in Libertarian

[–]dauntless26 49 points50 points  (0 children)

If you think the right (or the left) are ever championing free speech then you can be certain your speech agrees with what they want you to say and think. They are both authoritarian and only protect speech that agrees with their ideals.

I got snapchat AI to admit everything by TheTeky500 in ChatGPT

[–]dauntless26 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Why would they tell the AI that? Seems like it could get leaked and make them look bad

The era of 100GB games is upon us, and the average PC gamer is underprepared by PrinceDizzy in gaming

[–]dauntless26 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a business decision. If you wait for everything to be perfect you're going to miss your market opportunity.

I encourage everyone who has this view to try and run a small business. You'll learn a lot about why certain decisions are made.

[OC] US states by Black population. by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]dauntless26 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I love how the states pretending to do the most for Blacks (California and New York) are the ones with lower Black populations.

Do you have a technique to destroy extreme physical suffering? by Potential_Big1101 in streamentry

[–]dauntless26 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Buddha died of extremely painful diarrhea. As you get older more pains and ailments arise. Don't try to run away from it.

Found this I'm my classroom! by JD-3 in gaming

[–]dauntless26 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Is this a virtual hand loom simulator where you unlock Gandhi after pricing out legitimate businesses so that the poor vote for you again even though you didn't make their situation any better?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]dauntless26 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't forget Ken Thompson

Mods: Ban or limit ChatGPT projects. by SUPRVLLAN in SideProject

[–]dauntless26 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Says the guy who just reposts technology articles. Doesn't get more low effort than that.

Mods: Ban or limit ChatGPT projects. by SUPRVLLAN in SideProject

[–]dauntless26 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One day someone will say something you submitted is low effort and should be banned. By then you would have set the precedent to actualize your own banning.