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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by ziml77 on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:02PM (#28405946)
I had the misfortune of working with a vendor that did work in sprints. I couldn't see it as anything other than an awful way to work that caused things to take longer than they needed to because priorities couldn't be shifted on the fly and anything other than break fixes couldn't be released mid-sprint.

That fixed release cycle might make certain things easier, but it also causes a forced lag on all changes and encourages shipping code that isn't actually complete so you don't have to tell people to wait another 2 weeks for the change.

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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by ed_elliott_asc on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:08PM (#28406037)
This pretty much sums up sprints, extra meetings at start and end, less flexibility (we don’t want to change the scope of the sprint) and generally worse for everyone.

I wish some of Kanban was more widely accepted, especially things like making sure you have enough worked planned in the backlog to just keep taking tasks and working on them till completion.

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Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? by robocat on Friday September 03, 2021 @05:16PM (#28409504)
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20171213 - “An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage” includes comments on software Kanban and has same well written hate on sprints.
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