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Worked for a team where Scrum was thrust on it to fix/cover up bad management decisions.

Manager is really enthusiastic (to impress his new boss) and gets a bunch of colored post-it sticky notes for stories and shit. Team spends a bunch of time carefully writing stories & etc and arranging said notes on a white board. Come in the next day and 90% of them fell off due to condensation, or such such.

Left the group, with the rest of the senior dev staff, after the "15 minute" standup expanded a minimum of 1 hour each day... and the SM carefully writing down everything everyone said.

A co-dev gave me some career advice - "when the pilots are drunk, it's time to get off the plane."

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  • 2
    Hey!
    Quality first rant. Welcome aboard!
  • 2
    Yup, seems like shitty management trying to fix their shitty managering with Scrum because it sounds cool in theory, but most of the time gets implemented in a way it was not meant to be used.
  • 2
    Excellent career advice!
  • 2
    Ah, I had forgotten scrum on whiteboard was a thing.
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