AaronWe are adopting scrum + Jira at work. The combination of the change in routine and the new stress of publicly reporting and tracking my progress every day has my life dominated by anxiety right now. And the more anxious I get, the harder it is to focus. So I end up doing my work late at night, when I'm too tired to feel anxious, but that only leaves a narrow band of time between too anxious and too tired, and I'm losing sleep too. IDK what to do in this situation, but I know I have to figure something out, so that's more pressure and anxiety. I'm also struggling to find the words to talk to my boss about it, which is part of why I'm writing about it here.
Joelle@hosford42 I don't have any advice, other than saying most of the autistic devs I know hate the shit marketed as "agile" which these days is usually scrum + Jira. It's not an inclusive development practice, at least not the way I've experienced it implemented.
David O'Brien'the shit marketed as "agile"' is a good way of putting it.
#Agile, properly done, is about putting teams in charge of their work.
Giving them an outcome to achieve, and trusting them to come up with the best way of doing it.
And also allowing them to conclude: this is not achievable.
It is absolutely not:
• A management tool
• A reporting mechanism
• Productivity measurement
And Scrum !== agile
It's one possible implementation of a methodology. And that's all.
It's not a religion.
#Agile, properly, is just a way of empowering small multi-disciplinary teams to explore problems and develop potential solutions.
It's a methodology that is useful in highly uncertain environments.
It's not useful at all in known, or understood, environments.
If you're trying to buy new laptops for 1,000 employees, for fox ache don't use agile methods.
So-called frameworks such as #SAFE are, as you say, complete bullshit.
They are management consultancy responses to try to reimpose control.
It should come as no surprise that they are complex, complicated, and proposed by EY and other big management consultancy firms.
Tormod HalvorsenThe next time you experience any abuse, I suggest you pull out the principles of Agile, scrum or whatever specific framework you are using.
Any behavior that is not in line with the base principles should be considered an anti-pattern and must be called out.
bigiain@iamdavidobrien @joelle @hosford42
"It's not a religion."
Anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise.
Scott Lett@iamdavidobrien: Dear Oracle, it is also not a method of mind destruction, but you do you.