My last company officially transitioned from waterfall to agile right before I joined. In practice, they just continued doing things the old way but added a zillion agile-style meetings to it.
THE WORST
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Jan 10, 2019 8:43:09 am PST #3764 of 30019
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jesse - Jan 10, 2019 9:10:36 am PST #3765 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You guys, there is someone in a junior position here whose name is 100% the roller derby name of someone else in a senior position: The senior person is (not actually, but e.g.) Buffy Claymore, and the junior person is Buffy Slaymore!!
lisah - Jan 10, 2019 9:14:53 am PST #3766 of 30019
Punishingly Intricate
the sooner you adapt all the silly corporate rules to a structure that actually works for you, the more actually agile you'll be.
This!!!
-t - Jan 10, 2019 9:37:08 am PST #3767 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooooh, that's awesome Jesse!
Communications class is fine, I guess. We are getting lunch, so that's something.
Atropa - Jan 10, 2019 11:25:45 am PST #3768 of 30019
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
My experience with Agile is that it sounds like it would be great if it worked. And maybe it does work for devs. We writers aren't loving it.
Agile is hell for the documentation side of any org. HELL. I have come around to the heretical stance that waterfall is actually better than agile, because it doesn't have a million meetings to distract people, and there are usually built-in NO REALLY YOU ALL WILL REVIEW THE DOCUMENTS AND GIVE FEEDBACK parts of the schedule.
I also miss specs and spec review, because that process was far more helpful to writers and editors.
Dana - Jan 10, 2019 11:32:17 am PST #3769 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
We at least don't have to do daily stand-ups because all our devs are in France. But then that means that all of the reviews and planning meetings are early morning.
Atropa - Jan 10, 2019 11:36:41 am PST #3770 of 30019
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Waterfall also had UI review built in. And specs to start a terminology list with.
Sheryl - Jan 10, 2019 12:54:46 pm PST #3771 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I have no idea what Agile is, other than a big pain in the ass for many people. Ah, well....
Connie Neil - Jan 10, 2019 1:05:56 pm PST #3772 of 30019
brillig
I'm very grateful I'm not in management. Though tech support is in the middle of more detailed classifications of the cases we work on. There are lots of messages going around with "What category do I put *this* one ins?"
-t - Jan 10, 2019 1:30:31 pm PST #3773 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Communications class was not terrible, I actually learned something interesting and the interactive parts were not as horrible as I feared, just small group discussion. I'm now trying to get a full day's work done in an hour and half, but fortunately I don't have much time-sensitive right now.