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Your team isn't doing agile! Also, "agile" isn't something you "magically apply" to a development team and expect it to work. Your entire product development organization needs to be agile for it to work for the dev team.
Put simply, an agile (software development) process allows stakeholders to request the implementation of small pieces of functionality. The implementations can then be reviewed by the stakeholders, and the requirements could potentially be refined or revised. This is immensely valuable, because it's very difficult to get software requirements right the first time. Don't misinterpret this for a "free for all" when it comes to defining requirements. The agile process simply makes it easier to deliver a continuous and progressive path towards the final product, because customers usually don't know what they want until they've seen what they didn't want.
I highly recommend watching this video (in fact all videos on Clean Code by Uncle Bob). At my organization, the set of Uncle Bob videos is mandatory instruction for all devs and dev managers. A few of the early videos are required to be watched (and understood) by the entire product team. I understand we're probably in the minority.
What is Agile?[^]
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: the set of Uncle Bob videos is mandatory
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Agile is just developer socialism. Whenever it has been tried people who survive it never want anything more to do with it and people who have never tried it think that “this time will be different!”
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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What, no three to four 1+-hour meetings a week!? 
There's the backlog refinements, sprint planning, review, retrospective...
I've literally spent hours refining, prioritizing and planning a sprint, only for some manager to come in three days into the sprint and change everything because priorities had changed 
That company was the biggest money wasting pile of incompetence I've ever seen though, so maybe not completely representative.
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That's a good story, thanks!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Or you're just a tiny cog in a huge machine. Requirements in, module out.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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To repurpose an old aphorism, Agile is like teenage sex:
- Everyone claims to be doing it
- Very few are actually doing it
- The few that are doing it are usually doing it wrong.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: But I've been in the position for a year now, and the only difference from my previous jobs to this one is that now we have morning meetings and we delineate our work into two week intervals. That's it. Is this the highly touted Agile method?
I've worked projects in traditional "up front design"/waterfall and agile management. The right choice depends on the project and the players.
I've found that the following are relevant:
- UFD requires that the entire project is designed and planned before the software development starts. This can help with budgeting and well defined tasks. The project is finished when the development and testing is done. This works best with a relatively short time span (several months).
- A UFD design document is "the design" and needs to be completely thought out.
- A UFD project generally describes one version of the product.
- An Agile design document is needed, and needs to define high level features but should not describe granular details.
- UFD invites project management dysfunction such as feature creep, "this isn't what we want" and is very difficult to change one or two steps in "the plan".
- Agile accommodates feature creep and invites stakeholder and end user participation if they see that they can change a bad choice into something they want.
- Agile projects can comfortably go on for years and span multiple versions of a product.
- Agile allows software development at an earlier stage in the project design. You also get a better ad hoc idea of how much effort is required to complete the task.
- Agile is harder to budget and justify to upstream managers and bean counters.
- UFD generally provides better adherence to features and (sometimes) reliability.
- Agile generally provides better UI and general User Experience.
- Agile will give you a product that you can start using much sooner, as feature 'x' and 'y' are implemented.
- Agile will let you prioritize implementation details, do UI changes or partial redesign or add new features as needed.
- As long as you have incoming funding, Agile will give you a better product that more people will like.
For a better outcome:
- Use UFD to design a rocket lander or navigation computer or hospital ventilator.
- Use Agile if you have indecisive users or sales/managers that promise new features that were not planned for.
P.S. if your scrum meetings are hours in length, you are doing scrum wrong. This daily meeting should take place every day with every person in the meeting saying something for 30-60 seconds max. The whole scrum meeting should be over within 15-20 minutes. If a major issue comes up, it should trigger another non-scrum meeting with only the appropriate people attending.
If pigs could fly, just imagine how good their wings would taste!
- Harvey
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That was already posted in Insider News.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: That was already posted in Insider News.
or was it? maybe there is a tear in the space time continuum, causing you to think this, but in reality it never really happened.
maybe it happened, but because the internet really doesn't exist, it didn't actually happen after-all.
all of this is very interesting and mysterious indeed. 
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This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill, the story ends; you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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No, Twatter and Farcebox would require advanced Artificial Stupidity, and that's much harder to create. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I have a textbook titled "Artificial Intelligence meets Natural Stupidity"
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The Matrix?
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I don't think the writer of the article actually read the theory. It's not that we are all AI's, but that bots are being used to manipulate popular opinion on the internet i.e. social media.
Here is a quote from the actual theory:
Quote: The Problem: Outline the basics of what appears to be happening.
There is a large-scale, deliberate effort to manipulate culture and discourse online and in wider culture by utilising a system of bots and paid employees whose job it is to produce content and respond to content online in order to further the agenda of those they are employed by.
Already we've seen this in foreign nations influencing elections by manipulating advertising algorithms on social media in order to push specific candidates.
As I see it is due to a "positive feedback loop"
Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet is Fake[^]
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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There's a lot of evidence to support this supposition.
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I haven't researched the rabbit-hole, but I've seen things, such as deep fakes and read posts that seem to lend support to it. My initial observance is that by just reading the article, many people take it as fact even when the article links back to the source. By reading the source material, you can tell the article itself is "BS" as the author claims the theory is "BS".
I'm surprised as to how many people just believe what they see and read on the internet without questioning any of it. It's just taken as fact.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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That's exactly what an AI would want you to believe...
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Did every Scotsman start off as a Scotch Egg?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The apple of his father's aye?
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The mother had to say “aye” as well.
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... or the final scotching of his dreams. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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When a Scotsman goes crazy do they treat him with Scotch Tape?
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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