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Re:How to Measure Progress in a Software Project – By Adam Ard by wilkystyle on Thursday September 19, 2024 @02:32PM (#41594874)
Not sure if this is intended to expand on my comment or to be a rebuttal to it, but to be clear: I am in full agreement with you.

My comment strictly refers to many of the articles[0] and comments[1] that push back on the modern incarnation of scrum/agile/whatever. Productivity theater in project management is net harmful to innovation and actual product development velocity, but my point is that we can't go to the other extreme and have no planning or any kind of measurement.

[0] https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/why-scrum-is-stres...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41545101

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Re:How to Measure Progress in a Software Project – By Adam Ard by pestaa on Friday September 20, 2024 @02:00PM (#41604214)
In this case, an expansion. :)

Agile was ruined because of this need to be predictable and adaptable to plans.

And business folks often overlook that it is predictable and adaptable -- just not in the way project managers were educated in the old days (or even to this day, I don't know) expect.

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