Comment by nsxwolf
1 year ago
With Agile, I have found that I'm never able to just take a day off here and there. I need to take enough time off that I can meaningfully commit to taking less work in the sprint, otherwise my day off just leads to working nights and weekends to catch up. So it's either take the entire 2-week sprint off, or an entire week and hope I can correctly estimate what half a workload looks like.
Yes, yes, doing Agile wrong etc
Or you can just catch up when you're working? I don't understand what this has to do with agile. Are they going to fire you if you don't finish the sprint's tasks?
Eventually, yes?
Everywhere I’ve ever worked has treated sprints as an endless series of 2 week deadlines.
(Yes, I understand this is not “real” agile. I’ve never seen “real” agile and don’t personally know anyone who has.)
Well that sucks. Everywhere I've worked has treated sprints as a short term planning exercise. There's no penalty for not finishing all your sprint tasks; it just means your estimate was off and you probably need to add less work to the next sprint.
I think it’d be really hard not to psychologically anchor.
My experience with agile is either: * you get stressed out being measured at such a low resolution and sandbag or * you wind up in a low accountability context because even management knows how messed up scrum is for their use case.
I wish we had something better.