> taking developers who can’t or don’t want to see the overall business/architecture picture and getting useful work out of them.
Maybe in theory that's the point of it, but it practice it also (and mostly) has the opposite effect: it takes all agency away from capable developers and make them impossible to see the big picture, drastically plummeting developer productivity of otherwise very capable developers.
> Most of us here are not in that category. […] For us, […] is useless.
It's not just useless, it's actually harmful.
> But I can also see how a company ends up there - go through a tough hiring year, or even just make a few poor hiring decisions, and now you have people on the team who need handholding and supervision
But most of the time it's not how it happens: it's forced top-down by manager who have no idea of how software development work, and who are genuinely convinced that it is how projects should be run.
They don't realize that it's a workaround for terrible HR that reduces productivity for everyone, because if they did they'd probably think twice (“How is my HR so poor when I'm not trying to cut on costs there? Oh maybe it's not and I should not use scrum”), they just do it because everybody else does.
Maybe in theory that's the point of it, but it practice it also (and mostly) has the opposite effect: it takes all agency away from capable developers and make them impossible to see the big picture, drastically plummeting developer productivity of otherwise very capable developers.
> Most of us here are not in that category. […] For us, […] is useless.
It's not just useless, it's actually harmful.
> But I can also see how a company ends up there - go through a tough hiring year, or even just make a few poor hiring decisions, and now you have people on the team who need handholding and supervision
But most of the time it's not how it happens: it's forced top-down by manager who have no idea of how software development work, and who are genuinely convinced that it is how projects should be run.
They don't realize that it's a workaround for terrible HR that reduces productivity for everyone, because if they did they'd probably think twice (“How is my HR so poor when I'm not trying to cut on costs there? Oh maybe it's not and I should not use scrum”), they just do it because everybody else does.