I hope my team can forgive me for what I've done.

[purbeast0]

I completely agree and in my limited time in an Agile shop, I felt that too much of my time was taken up in meetings. Why am I having to sit through a meeting every single day to give my 1 minute update and then sit there and have to listen to other updates I don’t care about? If I encounter a roadblock, it is my responsibility to bring it to everyone’s attention. No problem with one status meeting a week, but daily is ridiculous. This particular company also had daily IT division standup meetings and also daily departmental standup meetings. I finally stopped going.

Daily standups are great... when done right, at least in my industry (software development). The problem is, a lot of them AREN'T done right and end up taking up way more time than they should.

 

[blackangst1]

 

[Ns1]

This meme is bullshit.

We don't have a wall, we're digital now.

 

[purbeast0]

This meme is bullshit.

We don't have a wall, we're digital now.

I hope that isn't a screen shot of your actual board.

"Develop new feature and test on production."

"Go through all core business features."

"Do some generic shit."

 

[Ns1]

lol no, 1st page google image results for "digital kanban"

 

[Ns1]

I'm so corporate that I just put "Planning to Plan" as the splash image on my team's sharepoint site.

 

[Chaotic42]

I hope that isn't a screen shot of your actual board.

"Develop new feature and test on production."

"Go through all core business features."

"Do some generic shit."

Don't forget "Increase shareholder value"

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Beatings will continue until morale improves.

Edit: DAMNIT. Darwin beat me on that one.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I had one project where we did agile.. did the whole scrum master role, daily stand-up, sprints, stories, etc.. .

Overall thought it was fucking stupid. I think it can be useful for small scale projects, but for the massive project we were on waterfall is simply the only option.

As far as daily standups, I never took them to be micro managing... and believe me, I know what a micro manager is because with my last job I had one. Daily standups you can just say something like "I'm doing testing, currently don't have any roadblocks." And that's it.

A micro manager will randomly call you out of the blue and start asking you a million questions on statuses, next actions, what you are currently working on, etc... they expect you to know all this shit along with details off the top of your head, with no time to prepare because it was a random unscheduled call. Needless to say, that was the shortest time I've even been with a company.

 

[Ns1]

Had our 2 month feedback discussion today. They didn't hate it - THEY LIKED THE MEETING AND WANT TO KEEP IT.


fuuuuuuuuu ATOT.

 

[Darwin333]

Had our 2 month feedback discussion today. They didn't hate it - THEY LIKED THE MEETING AND WANT TO KEEP IT.


fuuuuuuuuu ATOT.

Bwahahahahaha

Talk about a backfire!

 

[OutHouse]

Had our 2 month feedback discussion today. They didn't hate it - THEY LIKED THE MEETING AND WANT TO KEEP IT.



fuuuuuuuuu ATOT.

lol like they were going to say anything other..

 

[Ns1]

lol like they were going to say anything other..

meh, my team knows they have a voice and can speak up when things aren't working well. YMMV

 

[Ns1]

I just wanted to let you all know that I got promoted today, so the lesson here is clear: if you want to make it up the corporate ladder, schedule more useless meetings

 

[zinfamous]

I just wanted to let you all know that I got promoted today, so the lesson here is clear: if you want to make it up the corporate ladder, schedule more useless meetings

fuck me sideways, I guess you discovered the rather obvious secret.