I’m an architect at my company but we’re in a bind with a particular project that I had started a couple years ago, so they temporarily assigned me to basically one-man it over the finish line.

Aside from the stress of the deadline and knowing that I’m going to get stuck being the expert on this project forever, it’s been pretty nice (and productive) just working in peace and quiet with no bullshit scrum ceremonies and navel gazing as distractions. Actually reminded me of why I like programming, and that the things I hate about my career is the fact the organizations spend a lot of time keeping you from actually performing it for some reason.