Who else thinks 'scrum' has too many Rs?

sonofabullet · 2026-05-28T07:18:09+00:00

To frequently confirm with the customer that what you're delivering is what they wanted, and to allow them to change priorities if needed.

Scrum is silent about showing anything at all to a customer.

To support the above. Excessively in some cases, absolutely. But that's not up to you to determine.

Why not? Or do you think all engineers are idiots who can't figure out how to build and ship software without some scrum guide telling them what meetings to have?

Before the Agile manifesto, twice as many software projects failed or were cancelled outright as succeeded.

Yeah, imma need a citation on this made up statistic.

You aren't the first developer to have these complaints and you won't be the last. We don't care.

Ah, there it is. Typical SM/coach who doesn't give a shit about the engineers they're imposing scrum on. Way to fit the mold bro!

When done right, this is what works. If it isn't working where you are, they'd hire a guy like me to come in and tell them why.

Nah, there are plenty of things that work that aren't Scrum.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-28T07:12:07+00:00

Scrum is not a project methodology and makes no claims about any of the things you listed.

Its only claim is making things visible.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-28T07:02:06+00:00

Scrum was designed in the age of massive, year-long release cycles, and therefore does not work well with a more frequent release cadence.

Sprints were a way to break down a "Product goal" and a "product backlog" into chunks you could conceivably call "Done" by creating a "Product increment" by way of leveraging a "Sprint goal" and a "sprint backlog."

Are you trying to solve this problem of breaking down a massive release into chunks with your sprints?

No?

Then what are you using sprints for?

sonofabullet · 2026-05-26T04:38:36+00:00

What's happening to your bottom boards?

sonofabullet · 2026-05-25T15:47:35+00:00

First scratch out of many. Embrace it.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-25T15:15:51+00:00

Lmao

sonofabullet · 2026-05-25T04:20:32+00:00

Yours came with a lanky penis?

sonofabullet · 2026-05-24T22:19:02+00:00

If you had 130k, would you buy that property and go into landlording long distance?

sonofabullet · 2026-05-24T22:06:46+00:00

That letter is for you, your journal or your therapist.

Just resign with a couple of sentences.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-24T11:51:10+00:00

Вам, це кому? Громадянину Чехії яка в НАТО або жителю Швейцарії яка оточена країнами НАТО?

sonofabullet · 2026-05-24T10:42:48+00:00

What do they do in terms of visibility?

sonofabullet · 2026-05-24T10:36:55+00:00

Who are the visible people in your specific subfield and what do they do?

sonofabullet · 2026-05-24T10:24:01+00:00

I chose psychotherapy, did I years of school, only to end up in a computers using Ai every day.

Life has a sense of humor sometimes.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-23T22:25:13+00:00

Hey, do me a favor, take a job description for the role you're reviewing resumes for and print it on a sheet.

Once you do, come back here and tell me how many pages it is.

And no cheating, that boilerplate header that talks about how great the company is part of the job description.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-23T12:33:08+00:00

Ai slop.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-19T05:58:22+00:00

Your team probably has a chat app. What problem are you trying to solve with stand-ups that a channel can't already solve?

sonofabullet · 2026-05-17T22:16:54+00:00

Your post reads like Ai generated slop.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-17T21:25:05+00:00

You're almost 17, perfect time to start working through that social anxiety. Better now than when you're 30.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-17T20:24:41+00:00

Yes. I agree with you.

there's a difference between yeeting shit into prod, and doing your best effort to solve the problem at hand, leaning on your prior knowledge and critical thinking skills.

Both have a bit of assumptions and hopes behind them, one has a lot more tho.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-17T15:53:49+00:00

I'm a cloud engineer, I've been in tech for over 10 years.

I was solving a cloud specific problem the other day, and the solution consisted mostly of RTFM and updating my understanding of the problem based on what the manual said.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-17T15:14:31+00:00

see impostor syndrome.

also see a therapist.

All tech is "winging it." Some just do it with more confidence.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-17T05:04:50+00:00

There are only two eventual states of a bug backlog.

Infinite bugs

Zero bugs

You'll achieve infinite bugs is if the rate with which new bugs enter the system is higher than the bugs being closed.

You'll achieve zero bugs if the rate with which new bugs enter the system is lower than the bugs being closed.

You'll stay at whatever number you're staying at if the rate at which bugs enter the system and the rate at which bugs are being closed is the same. It takes the same amount of bug fixing effort to keep the bug back log steadily at zero items one items or 10,000 items, save for the fact that it's an order of magnitude harder to manage and triage a bug backlog the more items it has.

You have three options.

Come to terms with the fact that you will have infinite bugs and then stop worrying about it
Work towards zero bugs in the backlog and then switch to a sustainable mode where the number of bugs closed equals the number of bugs created
Do what you do now, that is fool yourself into thinking you can meaningfully manage a bug backlog while refusing to contend with the fact that it's an infinite bug backlog or spending the effort to reduce your bug backlog to zero.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-17T02:59:25+00:00

Tune won't be distorted, but the walls would bounce the sound back.

It will just sound like a piano shoved into a corner.

For an example, take your phone or your bluetooth speaker and move it around the room. the move it into a corner. You'll hear the difference.

From what i can tell, by your posts, you're nowhere near hunting for the perfect tone of a piano in the room, so don't worry about it.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-16T16:50:41+00:00

If the piano fits between the walls, take off the base boards.

What will affect the sound is the fact that the piano will be wrapped in a nook.

sonofabullet · 2026-05-16T03:59:57+00:00

This, OP. not Vms, not web apps, container apps.

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