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.
bigiain@iamdavidobrien @joelle @hosford42
"It's not a religion."
Anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise.