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Re:On the Unhappiness of Software Developers by Clubber on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:44AM (#14469789)
Do you do scrum where you work?
Re:On the Unhappiness of Software Developers by ThomaszKrueger on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:49AM (#14469834)
"They" like to say yes, that we scrum. Practically I have a manager that calls biweekly meetings and hands out work to be done in one or two weeks. Which usually is more than enough, but I manage to get everything done "on time".
Re:On the Unhappiness of Software Developers by Clubber on Friday June 02, 2017 @01:11PM (#14471580)
Every two weeks sounds great. At my last company "they" decided to do scrum. We had stand-ups daily (with 2 developers) and it was horrible micromanagement. They send out our burndown chart every day and if we were behind, the "scrum master" would constantly ask why and if we would make it on time. We had to do estimates and story refinement for hours. It was a huge mess. I quit and will never work for a company that is like that again.
Re:On the Unhappiness of Software Developers by enraged_camel on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:01AM (#14469914)
I think "scrum" refers to daily standups. I may be wrong though.
Re:On the Unhappiness of Software Developers by zaphod12 on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:10AM (#14469979)
Scrum is a process with way more than just daily stand ups. Obviously a company can do whatever works for them, but formal 'scrum' involves time-delineated sprints, planning meetings, demos, retrospectives, the daily stand ups, pointing stories and a handful of other aspects.

http://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html

NB: I'm not trying to advocate for it - it works for some teams, but everyone is different.

Re:On the Unhappiness of Software Developers by ThomaszKrueger on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:04AM (#14469937)
It probably is. I might never know. People use the words "agile" and "scrum" very liberally at least around here.