News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Why some software developers hate Agile by jfim on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:28PM (#21149504)
It's the burgerization of software development, where every engineer can be turned into a generic fungible burger-flipping engineering unit, and the output measured in the number of burgers flipped.

The software architecture is falling apart, the tech debt overshadows the actual debt of a small country, our subject matter expert quit the company over being micromanaged, and the clients are abandoning our buggy software for our competitors? What went wrong, we closed all of those JIRA tickets, surely that must be good for something.

Re:Why some software developers hate Agile by xpe on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:35PM (#21149607)
I largely agree.

I’ll add this — To a large extent, many management systems are about reducing the failure modes — but I don’t see why a system must downplay creativity and deep thinking about the core business engine (often the software).

Re:Why some software developers hate Agile by meheleventyone on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:32PM (#21149571)
Ticket driven development isn't just an agile issue though. Project management has always loved granular tasks and the assumption that at some point they are all worth the same effort.