We’d like you to be “agile” by following these very specific and rigid set of rules and procedures.
It's time to break free from Corporate Agile
Submitted 8 months ago by testeronious@lemmy.world to programming@programming.dev
https://bits.danielrothmann.com/corporate-agile
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Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 8 months ago
jkrtn@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Hello, we need you to spend more time discussing schedules in meetings with your whole team attending so that everyone can go faster.
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The original “agile” is a reaction to the overly rigid planning and emphasizes worker self-management. It makes sense since the people who are closest to the work (the workers) know best how to plan and implement the work.
It immediately breaks down when a specialized management tier emerges and tries to push their own agenda, i.e. to sell themselves rather than do something meaningful.
At this point, whichever form is used doesn’t matter. The management, endowed with the power from above, will exploit the weakness of any agile-shmagile methodology to push their own agenda.
lambda@programming.dev 8 months ago
Makes sense. My company was recently purchased and now we’re getting ready to start “working more agile”. I love the idea of it helping with the structure of our team. But, I can also read between the lines.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
When my company introduced the concept of “Agile Metrics” I knew the shit went off the rails.
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s time to break free from Corporate.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 months ago
Worker-owned enterprises are doomed to end up going the way of corporate, just like Animal Farm. It’s just human nature to seek power in any shape or form.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You’re awarded the bad take of the day.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 8 months ago
My experience is that a team should self-organize and decide how to work by trying things out and see what works well for them.
Anyone trying to force a framework down on people is wrong because different people/teams prefer working in different ways. I’ve never experienced following a framework rigidly as beneficial.
fubarx@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
“Burndown charts.”
Best cover for teams trying to look busy and justify their headcount.
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
This cuts too close to home.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Or because it’s not their job to do that. Tech perpetuates this “entrepreneurial mindset” bullshit, saying that for the wage paid for your work, you are also responsible for the company as a whole. Fuck no, especially since most devs can’t do shit about it. If you own a company and decide that I spend most of my productive time in bullshit meetings, you still pay me, just not for stuff you can actually sell. If the meetings start grinding my gears, I might hop over to a place where stuff makes more sense.
Workers are not there to make up for the bullshit management pulls. If your company is inefficient and mismanaged, look for the problem in management.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The moment i’m told that i’m responsible for the success of the company as a whole, i’m asking to be promoted to CEO. I’m doing my job, as hired for. No more, no less
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Not to mention, in many cases, the CEO is also the CEO of something else, and is on the board of a third and fourth entity (or something like that).
How about we apply the same standard to CEOs that the rest of us fucking peons have to abide by? Because I can sure as shit focus on two jobs better than my CEO can focus on 4+ jobs, and I’ve got ADHD.
jadero@programming.dev 8 months ago
You’ve just described my 50 years in the workforce, jumping from job to job, only just barely anything resembling an actual career.
4grams@awful.systems 8 months ago
This “entrepreneurial mindset” is what’s making it so hard to adjust to my new role. Recently took a job that’s new to me but since I always feel responsible and will try to fix everything, I’m having a lot of trouble staying in my lane. I need to keep reminding myself, just because I can do something, doesn’t make it my responsibility, nor do I deserve the blame if I don’t swoop in to fix it.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Having clear and healthy boundaries is incredibly important here. Otherwise you’re doing multiples of extra work for the same money. If they want more from you, they should also expect to pay more for you
Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Personally, I understood that sentence as mainly pointing out that you’re hindered in your work.
If you don’t have to perform activitism to get things changed, and you don’t have to fear any kind of consequences for pointing them out, then having a good rant in a retroperspective is therapeutic, fun.
You even just considering this to be extracurricular work, already seems indicative of some problem with management to me…