Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?

Re:Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much wo... by jjav on Thursday December 16, 2021 @05:06PM (#29584652)

> This method is not very scrum friendly, because in truth I'm actually brain-working all of my tickets at the same time, but I haven't shifted any electrons, just neurons.

This really highlights why I hate agile so much. Intellectual work doesn't lead itself to reporting status on completed tickets every single day.

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Re:Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much wo... by wonderwonder on Thursday December 16, 2021 @08:24PM (#29586540)

I absolutely hate having to do a daily stand up. I'll have my tickets done by the end of sprint, just not before that though.

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Re:Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much wo... by viceroyalbean on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:23AM (#29588170)

I agree that there is that implicit pressure, but really it should (as in the ideal case) be fine to just say "I've been thinking about A, B, and C" and leave it at that. That still gives you the room to say that issue C has blocker X etc if it needs to be resolved in the team.

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Re:Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much wo... by zoomablemind on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:40AM (#29588718)

> ...Intellectual work doesn't lead itself to reporting status on completed tickets every single day.

Status is WIP until completion. As for the intellectual work, that's just outright Analysis stage.

Most of dev's work is actually analysis. Sure, there's implementation, testing and such, but Analysis is almost non-stop.

Anonter way to put this is Evaluation of Alternatives, Optimization of Approaches.

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