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> "Every" is a pretty big word, and it's a pretty immature attitude to write off whole groups of people.

"Every" usually doesn't literally mean "every", but I'm sorry that my experience across several large companies is that the people that demand following "Agile Ceremonies" are by-and-large Project Managers, and (with rare exception) not the engineers or the technical eng managers. I've seen this at multiple large companies. And I remember clearly how much awesome, robust software we shipped before Agile creeped in around 2008-2010, to then be told we were "doing it wrong" because our work wasn't broken down into 2-week sprints.

> if you ship the wrong stuff

Two-Week Sprints are neither necessary nor sufficient to avoid this.

> It's a common attitude among immature devs who can't get beyond the whole "I have the most important job in the company" mindset. I'd expect it out of a junior dev, but someone who has 13 years of experience? That's not the flex you think it is.

That's super ad hominem. I'd rather hear a specific counter-argument on the necessity of Agile sprints.

parent khazhoux 3 years ago

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