Agile development only exists so nondevs can have a feeling they are contributing. T shirt sizing, planning poker, scrum meets, story points, sprint retrospective bla bla bla.

Agile development only exists so non-devs can have a feeling they are contributing. T shirt sizing, planning poker, scrum meets, story points, sprint retrospective bla bla bla.

Honest Opinion

Associate Product Manager

Honest Opinion- Grapevine

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- Agile is all about having stand-ups.
- Agile is all about having JIRA updates, burn down reports, velocity, story points, release cadence & similar jargons.
- Agile is all about having meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospectives, story time, etc.
- Agile is all about making the code work just to show the output at the demo.
- Agile helps in continuous improvement of something. (Nobody knows what’s that ‘something’)

With no offense to people in agile role, I want to ask everyone: Is agile all about understanding its definition in a wrong sense? What’s your story like? Comment.

Wrong definition of Agile. Narrate your experiences.

Software architect

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I'm tired of this Indian management style of listing all things that are WRONG, the very first thing in the morning

"None of you do this"
"This is not happening"
"Why are you <take names> not doing <something outside JD>?"

Is nothing working? Is the company going down?
Are employees doing nothing right?!

If you as manager/boss do not do this, please know there is a special place reserved in heaven for you ❤️

Managers/Boss: How do you conduct your standups?

Consultant

Hi, I am working in a early stage startup and our CEO has established the culture of transparency where he shares every update regarding company funding, customer sales, revenue and answers all questions within company but one thing that has been bugging me is his micromanaging. 


He has integrated a bot in slack which ask for what did you do yesterday ? and what are you going to do today ? , Everyday


He also managed a spreadsheet of our tasks and takes the exact estimate in days makes a calendar view there and keeps asking up to update on our tasks progress in multiple meetings or on chat. 


I didn't had such experience in prior companies but he mentioned, such things were being followed in NyKa, DineOut, etc as well 

Does the well known companies like Phonepe, Uber, Zomato, google, amazon, Microsoft, De shaw, sprinklr follow this as well ? 

I just wanna check, is he doing too much or it this a standard in Indian companies ? 

Thanks to all whoever reply to this post, please share your current & past experience.

My CEO is Micro Managing Engineers 😡

Software Engineer

1. You are building a software that otherwise could be built by a 12 year old kid, if given proper training.
2. You cannot code if I cut off google, stackoverflow & related websites.
3. You are just concerned about producing the output quickly because a. your work is time bound, b. you want to stand out from others.
4. You attend countless meetings that carry no value, thanks to Agile.
5. 10 people write code for the same software which otherwise could have been written by 1 person.
6. You write pages of documents just because you are expected to write for the team, compliance & stuff.
7. You don’t care about non-functional requirements as nobody asked for it.
8. You are spending hours together in coding a simple thing & you are branded a hard-worker.
9. Or you don’t spend much time in coding because you impress people with tech jargons that you learnt recently. You are branded a smart-worker.
10. The code you write will be completely rewritten in next 3-4 years just to catch up with the industry trends.
11. Your only goal is to earn loads of money which otherwise could not be earned in other engineering fields. That’s one of the reasons why you are on grapevine.

Prove me wrong if you can, by commenting your opinion.

Software engineering job is highly overrated. Prove me wrong if you can.

A G I L E

Before you raise your pitchforks let me preface by saying that I am glad LC exists which has allowed me to basically double my comp in a very small time and I have seen many people able to make jumps into high paying jobs and bettering their lives.

Having said that, I sometimes feel I am working with absolute buffoons who need to be spoon fed at every single step to get any meaningful progress. These people are excellent when tasks are well groomed and will complete them efficiently. 

Now put them in an ambiguous situation that will need talking to product and/or customers and no progress will be made for weeks. Every single solution would be hacked together quickly without giving it some thought as to what the longer term implications might be. Asking them to work on projects that need coordination with multiple teams means risking deadlines and escalations.

I would expect a fresher with no experience to struggle with the above but not seasoned devs with 7-8 years under their belt and at this point I have seen too many of them. There's definitely a place for leetcode but I think practical questions is a better vetting tool.

/rant

Leetcode style hiring has lowered hiring bar across the industry

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Hi Folks, anyone aware of any company that does not follow conventional Agile and are more open to different approaches in development methodology??

Any company not following Agile?

Product Manager

This is about software development.
- From my experience, I can say Managers do nothing.
- None of the Managers I am presently working with, insist on everyday code check-ins, despite we following Agile.
- Metrics like velocity, story points per person, burndown are not worthy of measuring the productivity.

How is productivity measured in your team?

How is productivity measured in your team?

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Myself working in a E-commerce firm. Where CTO is such a hypocrite, he wants to control everything and everyone. Like Micro Management to the extreme. Any suggestions rather than leaving this job immediately.

How to Report Toxic Work Culture

Software Developer

Note - I am a product manager too

4 out of 5 product managers will act all high and mighty of themselves, bragging their way as if they run everything going on in the company, flaunting their business degrees and being utterly disrespectful towards their team( dev design qa name it), 

Recently started going to office so the attitude I am seeing is very transparent and more visible (more with the higher experience folks)

It makes me wanna leave this hyper inflated role, thinking of I will end up like them scares me, and you have to do is speak out jargons in meetings day in day out and have a English accent of Shashi Tharoor.

Recently my manager told that this is a role where you have to very representable or very visible and act in floor as if you are the busiest person on earth and I seriously some PMs in company doing that, they walk so fast in floor as if they will fall off or would be better to have 4 legs.

I am done with this product management shit

I will go first: 5
1. Jira
2. Google Sheet
3. Google doc
4. Slack: 2/3 groups
5. Daily standups

Does PM think this is judicious use of a software engineers time? Why can't you seriously just open the jira and read the timeline and due date?

How many places do you have to give status update to track a single coding/testing task?

AI Engineer

Would you rather be an Engineer learning how to Product or a Product Manager learning how to Engineer?

• First you are asked to present a plan for next quarter in a week's time
 • You come up with some random things to present
 • You are  told that the the targets (impact) are too low and given an unrealistic target.
 • You present an unrealistic plan for the revised target.
 • You are asked to get the stuff done in even less time and plan for it.
 • Every month you're asked as to why the initiatives are not giving expected impact.
 • At the end of the quarter you are asked (humiliated) why you're not able to deliver on the plan that you yourself made
 • You are asked to present plans for the next quarter next week
 • the cycle just repeats

Rant : Quarterly planning

Engineers saying pms shouldn't exist should for once get what they want. Most engineers I know get anxious enough to take leaves once a customer shouts at them lol

Pms shouldn't exist folks should get what they want

Computer operator

There has been a huge influx of posts dissing roles like Product, Marketing, HR etc. by Techies.

Every other post, or comment is made by them undermining the value of other depts and these cuties think business runs just by their sub-par code.

I understand that their delusion stems from the fact they get paid huge salaries by loss making companies. Which is bound to crash sooner or later. 

Rant over.

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