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Palau's President Surangel Whipps said on Wednesday that the island country was hit by a major cyberattack in March, just as it reached an agreement with the U.S. on a two-decade aid package.
"The source came from somewhere in Malaysia with traces back to China," said the president in a news conference in Tokyo, citing an analysis by Palau's experts on the attack. He added that it was the "first major attack" according to the island nation's government records.
Palau is one of the few countries that maintain formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-05-06 |
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People who write reviews on tech blogs and publications. There are probably at least a dozen of those. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-05-06 |
Only thing I could come up with is this could be a useful device for the blind. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
That was the point. Not to make a quality product, but to make a good looking product and sell the company for an insane valuation. They never meant to make a product that was intended to work well and be supported for a reasonable lifecycle. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
I think the funniest and most damning thing about this? They said they'll give you two free months of a $20 subscription service. Yet chose not to disclose if they'll replace affected charging cases for free. (The article pointed out.) Now...keep that in mind when you read this; "The charging case, which works similarly to an AirPods case, is included in the package when a user buys the Ai Pin for $699 and up. It's also been sold as a standalone accessory for $149.15 hours ago
https://www.bloomberg.com › articles". SOUNDS like Humane Ai is hoping nobody will raise any complaints if they charge for another charger. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
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That's honestly crazy considering I only started hearing about them not too long ago. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-05-06 |
Just like the internet 20 years ago, total fad | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
October 12, 2026 | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
During a gold rush sell shovels. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
*The whole world at your fingertips, the ocean at your door* | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
That's a pointless statement. The value of a company correlates with how rich they are... | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Remindme! October 13th 2026 | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
If only Bill Gates wasn’t so short-sighted, he killed the Windows Phone before it even had a chance | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
The thing is, like with the whole TMSC debacle and all the talk about chip manufacturing being a matter of national security, etc. with billions being dumped into construction of facilities here, the big tech companies can't 'just' go create their own hardware. It's massively expensive to build the fabs for the high-end chips which is why volatile Taiwan has been the center of it for such a long time. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
The problem is Nvidia is so far ahead in the R&D race the other companies simply can't catch up. Nvidia is relentless with R&D, the gap can only widen. They started designing the current crop of AI chips in 2016, so they've got an 8 year head start.
Jesnsen Huang is an electrical engineer, he is not a 'cost-cutter.' He will never let any other company get ahead as long as he is in charge. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
No where in my original post did I ever say anything about taxing value. So yes, quibbling semantics instead of engaging with the topic at hand. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
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I'm confused who needs this and also isn't tech savvy enough to tether to their phone as a backup | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-05-06 |
I’d buy that. I pay $50 for a 5G hotspot as a backup to my FIOS right now. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-05-06 |
You have no idea how many people I do IT support for, doesn't even know how to hotspot or tether their phone.
Those who do know, don't want to, due to their data caps. A windows update or game update, or whatever, that creeps through unnoticed, will finish off most people's data caps.
Yes, I know, there's no more "data cap". What do you call the cutt off point services do when you exceed your allotment of "fast" speeds, say 20Gb (random number), then *throttle* your speed to dialup (2G)? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-05-06 |
My router can connect to and share my phone's 5G... | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-05-06 |
My GF's T-Mobile internet is hot garbage, and she lives in the middle of Burbank. But I guess hot garbage is better than no garbage... | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-05-06 |
That’s what my hotspot is for. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Outages are inevitable, having diverse carriers is an option to you, it’s not something that would be part of consumer service. If you get busy service at home, that will most definitely have redundancy. Very standard in the networking world.
Heck buy three connections if you like, N+1, it just depends on how important it is to you. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Besides the fact that the BBB has absolutely no power and no one today really cares what their rating on it is. Especially given how monopolistic internet and cable providers are in states like Florida. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
The fact that you mentioned the BBB proves to me you don't really understand how the modern world works. I dunno if you're old or young, but the world doesn't work that way.
Big businesses do whatever the fuck they want and the rest of us deal with it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
The absolute worst home internet service I’ve ever had. I had it for 2 months and had to get rid of it.
It was ok at first, but started dropping out every 45 minutes and created odd issues like Zoom calls taking 2+ full minutes to join. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
I might've considered it, except that the commercials for their 5G internet service are beyond insufferable. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Another nail in the coffin. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-05-06 |
Is it safe to charge my coffin overnight? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-05-06 |
> There are issues with a third-party battery cell that “may pose a fire safety risk,”
Cheap suppliers to cut costs, is it really worth it for the hit to a company's image? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-05-06 |
Only if you disable Cremation mode. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-05-06 |
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Here's a question, and I admit I don't really fully understand the difference between agile and scrum, but as someone whose role involved running support for products where the engineering and product teams were all about agile, I tend to default to hating it. They'd build some half assed new feature (MVP!), roll it out to users without telling my team or doing any documentation, and leave us holding the bag on it and all the other half assed features and when we'd be like "can you please fix this terrible user experience" (or, sometimes, "hey, here is a high value feature the users want, can you put it on the roadmap") the answer was no, because they had no time this sprint to finish old features because they had to build the new one. Rinse, repeat. It was just endless fire drills of half assed engineering. (To say nothing of the company where sprints would end, teams would shift, and unfixed bugs would fall into the void because there was no process to reassign them).
This has been my experience across multiple companies.
So my question is: how is it supposed to work, and what's supposed to keep it from ending up here? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Fast, cheap, reliable.
Pick two. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Exactly. A thing to note here is that software engineering is rather unique in that perfectly ordinary projects on the well trodden ground, which absolutely should succeed, inexplicably fail all the time. Why? Because of stupid shit, like using a piece of shit bug tracker to manage all of the development in a ritualized way instead of doing actual work.
Agile is so popular because it allows upper management to not do their jobs (thinking through ahead of time who the customers are gonna be, what they are going to be doing with the product, etc). Most development is not in any way what so ever cutting edge, and should be planned for like any other engineering - but often isn't, wasting time and money.
edit: I'd say it's not so much agile causing failures, but management who have no clue what they are doing gravitating towards ritualized nonsense like agile to cover their ass for when the project will go bad. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Everyone has a slant when it comes to software | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Yeah I can't tell you how many times I've designed something "well" the first time only to scrap the whole damn thing and redo it like 2 or 3 more times before it ends up ACTUALLY being designed great. That's just the reality of things. Failing fast and reiterating on the same crap design just ends up with more crap. Sometimes it really takes a while for these things to be crafted beautifully. Can't all be done in one night. You gotta sleep on things, have more experiences, and come back to thing with more knowledge, experience, and a fresh mind, to really make something great.
just doesn't make sense to grind through some crap for 2 weeks because all you end up with is a bunch of wasted time and still crap by the end of it. lol | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Here’s the solution: make it so that only one team is needed to work on a feature. Organizations that are structured in a way that you have to engage multiple teams for a single feature are simply not a good fit for agile. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
My team keeps a decent 3 month horizon, but we get it done kicking and screaming against management sabotaging us the entire way. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Unfortunately PM's are typically the most backward thinking people chanting "agile" or "scrum" religiously and god forbid there is deviation instead of wasting immense amounts of time on recurring meetings and daily standups etc | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
> not micro-manage the shit out of my engineers and give them more autonomy to grow
Agile is supposed to do this at the end of the day. Most people just do it wrong. The team should be the people writing tickets and refining the work. That's their opportunity to decide how to do something and execute their autonomy.
Agile is not micro management. You do a lot of management, but if that's all you're getting from it then you're not quite doing it right. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
I'll pick cheap & reliable; you won't be able to deliver :D
A longer project is not cheaper! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
On good agile teams, the only money spent is on the salaries. and a lot of the "failures" really just lead to better requirements, a new sprint, and a better, more useful end product.
Every "successful" waterfall project i was on in the previous decade, was $500-$1.5mil. Senior Director level setting the "project requirements" "on-time" and a "successfully delivered against requirements"
Every single one of those projects then had follow on, AGILE projects where we had to rip out all the shitty design (which we would confirm by gathering user feedback to validate feature metrics. We would pull info from system audit trails to see what the users actually were doing" that the Sr. Director mandated, replace it with features that the users actually would use, with 1/4 of the budget in 1/3 of the timeframe with almost zero recognition.
Waterfall is great if you are a top level upper management who is guaranteed a bonus based on meeting a timeline. You can literally never fail since you can just meet your timeline with whatever features make it. No matter how bad the features are or how little anyone uses them. It's dumb.
Waterfall always sucked for our users, they would constantly ask "Why is this like this? This isn't how we do the actual business tasks, the system is forcing us to do things in awkward ways causing defects"
and every single one I was on was marked green and those Sr. Directors all retired with nice fat bonuses. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
This is like the WWII bombers coming back. The picture og where planes eere hit and survived vs where they were hit and nevere came back was pretty striking, but people would get the wrong impressions from it and assume they had better protection. Reminds me of that. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Instead of "agile is a waste of time" go ahead and tell us how waterfall isn't.
You can't
Every project style has examples of waste. The whole point of agile is to identify it early, before you spend weeks / months in waterfall meetings and endless report outs to end up w/ a product no one will use.
And when someone says "that wasn't really agile" they are usually right. Running a waterfall project and just calling meetings "stand ups" isn't agile. Which is what a huge amount of companies try and do. (Everyone using SAFE) | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Not even. Real life experience has taught me that you can really only pick one. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Failing upward, one executive at a time | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Don’t forget backlog refinement | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
I've worked on projects using Agile and without and honestly it's so much better using Agile if you can afford to fail fast. Usually those objecting think their projects will go to plan but never account for the unknown unknowns, hit a massive issue and then blow out the costs. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
exactly! for the projects not using agile, we are yet to find out. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Not following through on the work isn't an agile problem though. That's a management problem. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Smarter week by week.. Forever.. Sprint forever, get smarter forever.. Happy shareholders | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
I have supported teams who do. They were highly disciplined & talented people, whose leadership trusted them. It's rare, but it does exist. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
I love the actual idea of Agile. The implementations where they choose what to include and take out, are fucking dumpster fires. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Curiously what aspects do you think are dumpster fire? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
my team mostly worked with a waterfall process, so far the consultants have made about $2 million and now it's harder for everyone to do their jobs | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
I broke production for one of our clients, it made the news lol. No documentation, no monitoring in place. Me and my superiors thought the service was useless. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
That's because you get a bunch of cowboy project managers who thinks agile means, oh I don't need to plan ahead and stay on my feet. Worked with a bunch of them with nothing more than a 2-3 month plan for a multi million dollar multi year project. And one of them little shits had a audacity to tell me not to talk to their stakeholders because my risk assessments were making them look bad. Multi million dollar implementation down the drain in 2 years. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
I don’t think anyone is looking for a silver bullet. The link suggests that agile is proven to set you up for failure. That aligns with my personal experience. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
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A study has found that software projects adopting Agile practices are 268 percent more likely to fail than those that do not.
Even though the research commissioned by consultancy Engprax could be seen as a thinly veiled plug for Impact Engineering methodology, it feeds into the suspicion that the Agile Manifesto might not be all it's cracked up to be.
The study's fieldwork was conducted between May 3 and May 7 with 600 software engineers (250 in the UK and 350 in the US) participating. One standout statistic was that projects with clear requirements documented before development started were 97 percent more likely to succeed. In comparison, one of the four pillars of the Agile Manifesto is "Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation."
According to the study, putting a specification in place before development begins can result in a 50 percent increase in success, and making sure the requirements are accurate to the real-world problem can lead to a 57 percent increase.
Dr Junade Ali, author of Impact Engineering, said: "With 65 percent of projects adopting Agile practices failing to be delivered on time, it's time to question Agile's cult following.
"Our research has shown that what matters when it comes to delivering high-quality software on time and within budget is a robust requirements engineering process and having the psychological safety to discuss and solve problems when they emerge, whilst taking steps to prevent developer burnout."
The Agile Manifesto has been criticized over the years. The infamous UK Post Office Horizon IT system was an early large-scale project to use the methodology, although blaming an Agile approach for the system's design flaws seems a bit of a stretch.
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It is also easy to forget that other methodologies have their own flaws. Waterfall, for example, uses a succession of documented phases, of which coding is only a part. While simple to understand and manage, Waterfall can also be slow and costly, with changes challenging to implement.
Hence, there is a tendency for teams to look for alternatives.
Projects where engineers felt they had the freedom to discuss and address problems were 87 percent more likely to succeed. Worryingly, workers in the UK were 13 percent less likely to feel they could discuss problems than those in the US, according to the study.
Many sins of today's tech world tend to be attributed to the Agile Manifesto. A neverending stream of patches indicates that quality might not be what it once was, and code turning up in an unfinished or ill-considered state have all been attributed to Agile practices.
One Agile developer criticized the daily stand-up element, describing it to The Register as "a feast of regurgitation."
However, while the Agile Manifesto might have its problems, those stem more from its implementation rather than the principles themselves. "We don't need a test team because we're Agile" is a cost-saving abdication of responsibility.
In highlighting the need to understand the requirements before development begins, the research charts a path between Agile purists and Waterfall advocates. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Once BlackStone bought the private company I worked at, we started getting multiple tickets added in the middle of the sprint. QE could not keep up, so many things just took longer, as the QE queue kept increasing, and they lessened the amount of staff in that area.
That's one example. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Nobody has ever done agile right | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
I posted the article text [above](https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1d94vf0/study_finds_268_higher_failure_rates_for_agile/l7brkf9/).
This whole article is RIDICULOUS. You can “demonstrate” anything if you don’t define your terms, and then play on ambiguities.
For example, this article conflates the agile principe of “working software over comprehensive documentation,” and asserts that projects are more successful when desired outcomes are defined. Well, duh. Agile doesn’t say you can’t have any documentation. But a five page document where Eng and PM align on outcomes and approaches is in fact better than 400-page specs - a world that many of us have lived through.
I could go on and on.
A reporter I respect did a thread a while ago on how most news articles come to be. They begin with a press release, he said, and then papers desperate for content pick it up. The important thing, he explained, is to understand who wrote the release and how they hope to gain from the narrative they are pushing. In this case, even the article here gets it right: “a thinly veiled” attempt to push a book.
With reasoning like this, you can guarantee I won’t be buying that book. I don’t want things that insult my intelligence or aim to manipulate me for someone else’s gain. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Just have to say… total horse shit. Is this a longitudinal study? What are to their metrics for success?
Seems kind of insane. The standard metric Jess been software projects fail at 80% rate (The mythical man month, Brookes) | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
> The entire point of a system is to mitigate the potential for individual actors to disrupt it, no?
Er, no?
Any software development process that is robust against sabotage is going to be miserable for everyone concerned. In principle, an employer could mitigate this by offering above-market salaries so that good engineers will put up with it. In practice, such employers will offer below-market salaries and take whoever they can get, and the problem becomes self-perpetuating.
I'm a software engineer. I look for jobs that pay well and allow me to do my best work. In practice, this is no trade-off; jobs that pay well will give me creative freedom and influence over the end result and jobs encumbered by bureaucracy and politics will also pay less. I have seen very few exceptions to this (outside very specific FAANG-type situations).
I'm sure that there are some environments where it works acceptably well to hire mediocre engineers who will work for substandard wages and then saddle them with a pile of troubles unrelated to their work. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
That's more of the company not respecting resource limitations. No framework or methodology works under those conditions.
That's just classic PE squeezing the juice. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
> And another 15% is subtly trying yo get you angry at a specific group.
More like 50%. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Imma pick cheap twice. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Some teams do agile, some teams have just a weekly meeting to go over updates. The latter teams are always much happier and more efficient. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
The extreme end of "I'm not doing any work until you give me the complete spec" is really bad. Sure, out of those that you start you may carry out more projects to completion but how many didn't get started in the first place because you were demanding a complete spec? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Agile is a huge boost to developer productivity and project success, provided it is properly implemented. That last part is important. Far too often organizations decide to skip the crucial design or planning stages and use the excuse that "it's agile, figure it out".
Then there's the outright misinterpreting the manifesto. "Working software over comprehensive documentation" does not mean you don't need documentation. "Customer collaboration over contract negotiation" does not mean there isn't value in a clearly defined contract. And yet, the powers that be somehow read that and think they can throw out all the sound engineering practices, fly by the seat of their pants, and somehow expect the result to be something other than a steaming pile of shit. Oh well, if that doesn't work, I guess they can outsource engineering to a team that can produce twice the shit in half the time... | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Not looking for a debate, but just information: if failure / success rates don't prove or disprove the value of Agile as a methodology, what metrics do Agile proponents use? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Funny enough, we've been having the opposite headache at my workplace.
Caught a rather annoying bug a week after release. Quick and easy fix, just an equation writing to a PDF had a decimal out of place. But since those reports are customer facing, our salesfolks HATE it because they have to explain it every single time, and it makes us look kinda... not great.
Again, we caught it a week after release. That was 8 months ago, and we are STILL fighting the red tape to get a fixed build pushed. We thought we had a release candidate ready to go... but then our product manager got back from vacation and suddenly.... nope.
I am so... so tired.... | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Oh they are just doing agile wrong. TM ;) | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
This is where it falls apart for me. Most teams are quite small is the manpower of a dedicated agile leader really better than just hiring another dev/qa to make the project go faster? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
This is what it inevitably becomes anywhere, I’ve never seen it not turn toxic when multiple teams are involved, even within a team the notion that someone else has done 10 points and another 2 puts pressure on.
Don’t start me on story points… “it’s not a number of days it’s just complexity, but as a guide 1 point would be a 1 day task and 3 points a 3-4 day task”. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
That why I quit consulting, it was not fulfilling. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Really?
Oddly enough we were successful. It easily took a year to finally get to Scum Agile.
We kept kidding ourselves we were Agile when we were actually Mini Waterfall.
A big part of the problem was the fact our team members were spread around the world. The very worst case scenario for any Agile Team. "But we saved money!" BS. We did not save a dime. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
At some level that had to be so satisfying to say. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
With a team with low turnover and good communication channels both internally and with business, this wouldn’t be a problem.
The key to retaining knowledge is the employees, not dead documents. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Yup, a ton of companies got rid of dedicated testers and pushed that to developers...then rush developers and force them to ignore testing. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
So it wasn’t agile because you did this project before 2001? I don’t think you can call this non-agile just because it happened before the terminology existed. It sounds like exactly the type of project agile was created to describe. When the manifesto was created it described how successful projects they had seen worked, they put a name and definition to that method of software development, they didn’t invent that method of software development, they just described how it worked. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
It doesn't. But our management does software one way and one way only.
2 months of meetings deciding what will go into a build. 2 more months of meetings discussing what was decided in those first two months. 2 months of coding, re-coding, and reversion as more managers get involved and decide that another item NEEDS to be in this build (since it will be 6+ months until the next build after all), but then doesn't, then does, then doesn't. Then vacations happen and nothings moves for a while. And finally 5 minutes of QC before pushing the final release to live.
It is... not the smoothest of systems. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Part of the problem is that people newer to the industry don’t understand what “working code over comprehensive documentation” even means, because they’ve never worked anywhere where they’ve had to write uml for 6 months before starting to code. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Was this a Salesforce project? It sounds like every Salesforce project I’ve ever inherited. I hate this stack :( | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Do you work in heavily regulated industry with large fines for failure ? Because agile does not work here. You absolutely must have documentation, process flows etc designed before coding starts. Yes I know says start with a small part of the problem build outwards, business expert etc. but it rarely works.
I’ve been
Around a long time professionally ( 30+ years) and the methodology doesn’t matter.
It’s the person leading the team and managing the project that matters.
I’ve seen it in over and over again.
Projects 3 years late , 5% completed ( with crap). I can come in complete the project with the same people in less than 12 months. It’s how you motivate people, engage with stakeholders,drive forward and handle the unforeseen. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
We moved from a strict waterfall methodology to agile about 5 years ago now. It took a while, but it’s been great for us. Our product is miles ahead of what it used to be, we deliver small but continuous improvements and features, it’s great. My only complaint is that it seems to be structured in a way to suck every ounce of productivity out of you to the point burnout becomes a dangerous issue. We try to balance that, but, it’s kind of hard to do from both ends of the management/worker spectrum. Management of course wants everything yesterday, worker wants to prove to management they are worth their dollar. So, sprints get overloaded, people take on too many points, and down the rabbit hole of despair we go. But yeah, it’s awesome! Sure as hell beats waterfall. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
No surprise, agile sucks. Whatever it’s supposed to be, in practice it’s just leads to jank on top of jank, culminating in a corresponding janky pile of unmaintainable shit. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Ken Schwaber created Scrum in the 90s, the agile manifesto was signed in 2001. Extracting the essence of what makes Scrum work was part of defining agility.
Agility is just four values:
1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
2. Working solutions (software if you're pedantic) over comprehensive documentation
3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
4. Responding to change over following the plan
That's all agile is. It's what the signatories of the manifesto identified as being common among their ideals.
(12 principles came a bit later, but getting in to them tends to just confuse people. The four values are philosophical enough for some). | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Perfect response. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Totally agree. This stats does not mean Agile failed. It means it does its job. Unless more details can be provided on why those projects failed, which will likely mean it will also fail for waterfall, just at a later stage and higher costs.
Most waterfall I have done fail after we have gone live for 3 months cause the product is not what the users want. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
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When you get banned in the game you get banned IRL! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Anyone who puts PII on Confluence deserves what they get. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
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