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Re:Scrum Sucks by fatherzine on Monday January 15, 2024 @12:49PM (#39003752)
"people had fewer than 3-4 hours per day to actually work" had the same experience. the unwritten expectation was to pull 8 hour coding days /plus/ all the Scrum overhead. if you don't like it, there's 1000 guys waiting to take your place, partly thanks to remote. a core reason we haven't fire you yet is that it is costly to ramp up new people, but don't try our patience.

see also "hire fast fire faster"

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Re:Scrum Sucks by cassianoleal on Monday January 15, 2024 @02:42PM (#39005173)
> "people had fewer than 3-4 hours per day to actually work" had the same experience.

Same. Even worse, spread out in between meetings. Some days I'd have barely started understanding the work to be done and it was time for the next meeting. Rinse and repeat for each "non-meeting" slot throughout the day and the whole day is a write-off.

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