Comment by khazhoux

The last 15 years I'm nagged by this thought that we don't let software developers be software developers anymore. Between sprint planning and JIRAs and project managers and constant meetings and "stakeholders" and senior engineering leadership who confuse progress-tracking for progress... when the hell are people supposed to do the amazing work??

I know it's beating a dead horse to pick on these, but it's a real problem. I look back at how productive we were with tiny teams up until right before 2010, and the main thing that stands out compared to today is all this goddamn overhead.