Comment by quickthrower2
2 years ago
Modern “agile” systems don’t work well with you. They want you to deliver X points of features in 2 weeks. Sounds like you’d be better off as a consultant? But then you need to do all that biz dev stuff! Or find a great CTO to work for (or be the CTO) who understands. You only need one job.
I always laughed about those X points targets.
In the end people ended up simply inflating the value of stories.
In my previous team I had to argue with a person that 2 story points to add translation keys were ridiculous.
To which the EM argued that 2 was okay because he also needed to write few accompanying tests.
I have nightmares thinking about this stuff. It was literally quicker to add the translation keys and that pointless test than to even discuss and vote the story and debate the points..
Company has a goal for 5% increased velocity, what they want: teams get more efficient at pushing stories through to completion, what they get: teams just estimate 5% higher.
Goodheart strikes again.
And large companies will probably never learn, because at some critical mass it becomes less important to ship than it does to tell people how cool the product you want to ship is. Devs don't get paid for shipping outside of a short surge of stocks (which they proceed to not be able to take advantadge of because potential insider trading). Heck, some industries just let you go after you ship.