doseofreality

Jira is bad, but SIM is horrendous. SIM makes Jira look good.

Maybe it should have been an article on: "You Don't Need WeWork"

friends don’t let friends use us-east-1.

If you post it, you'll get your own letters from him demanding you forget him or be in violation of GDPR.

Queue up some saying about trees, sky, growth, etc.

Having to suffer with Scrum at work is bad enough. This sounds like a great idea for people who hate themselves.

They were also a forerunner in not using the loudspeaker system to page various employees.

So, if a developer takes too long developing the pre-defined micro-task which you've assigned them, you have to followup with them and report on why a micro-task took too long?

If this isn't micromanagement, what would you define as micromanagement?

The choices really are: a) a lot more government, or b) more government

This is owned by Atlassian/Hipchat.

Except at most companies that use Scrum, there are very rigid rules sent down from above regarding the implementation of Scrum. These rules apply to the whole company and can't be questioned or changed via retros.

Yes, that all sounds great, but "agile" has morphed into things like SaFE in the real world.

In Agile, as implemented at most non-consulting shop places, the Product Owner really doesn't have the authority to block things coming into the sprint being pushed from executive staff, important customers, or sales. The PO just acts as a point of contact/funnel to push the stuff coming in from these places into the sprint.

Just search on "dev manager" and agile. You'll come across lots of articles from scrum proponents that attempt to severely downplay the need and role of dev managers and sometimes claim they aren't needed at all in an agile shop.

The one thing they usually don't mention is all the new agile servant leader positions your company will have to hire instead of dev managers.