" a straw-man practice called “Waterfall” " * laughs in defense contractor *
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Replying to @KarlKGallagher @MorlockP
I've seen many defense contractor teams with what I call agilefall. The contractor operates on agile for development, but delivers to the government on waterfall. Worst of all worlds.
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Hot take: This is also the best of all possible worlds when done right, if necessary.
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Eat the bug. Live in the pod. Plan the sprint for q4 year after next.
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Get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to deliver things and then deliver them well.
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The implied subject of my tweet (eat the bug, plan the sprint) is a person; of yours, a corporation. Rectified: Eat the bug, plan the sprint, earn the middle class salary.
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I just don't agree that this thing is like the others!
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Sprint planning is like McDonalds: it reduces variance / creates predictability. Which has some upsides. I don't want to live in a McDonalds tho.
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Replying to @MorlockP @orthonormalist and
don't worry you will end up with some self appointed people management genius PM who will do a bunch of fraud in your backlog, pack your sprints, and turn them into very exciting chaos. engineers love real predictability, but business only ever gives them the fake coercive kind.
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Replying to @sol_saturn @MorlockP and
Being the PM, and having worked collaboratively with EMs to consistently deliver features, I can say I have literally never done that. EM says 'This fits', it fits. It's not on me to argue. I might say 'can we retask this other dev from bugs to help', though.
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PMs can be good Sprints can be a good tool Of course, sometimes children wear the clothing of PMs, and childish chaos wears the skin of sprints.
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Replying to @MorlockP @sol_saturn and
Agreed! And sometimes gremlins wear the skin of engineers.
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