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Re:Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of pr... by sharken on Saturday December 25, 2021 @02:21PM (#29686118)
It's the same issue with SAFe, with the added cost of many additional meetings that provide little value.

Redefining "complete" or letting a story roll over, e.g. the estimate for finishing it was wrong, seems to indicate something doesn't work as it should.

Breaking down a project into milestones sounds like a great idea, i totally agree that project management could use an alternative.

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Re:Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of pr... by icedchai on Sunday December 26, 2021 @11:37AM (#29693829)
All the overhead that occurs with Scrum / SAFe / Agile in general is absolutely terrible. Daily standups? Sprint planning? Retrospectives? Grooming meetings? Then there are additional, generally agenda-less team meetings on top of it. All these meetings, plus time lost to context switching, etc., probably adds up to 20 or 25% of the time.
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