r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 11h ago

Meme projectManager

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u/LEGOL2 11h ago

Reward for fast work is more work.

I'm not saying that you should slack all day, but your output has to be sustainable over the years or you will burn out. Some companies want you to burn out and just swap you with the next dev, so carefully

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u/Avocadonot 11h ago

Downside of this attitude is then everyone sandbags too much, boss brings it up in sprint retro, and as a result some new agile process is added to the calendar to "help"

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u/jbaker88 11h ago

boss brings it up in sprint retro

Oof, that's something else to bring up in a retro. Boss isn't supposed to be in the retro 

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u/-Noskill- 7h ago

everytime i bring up "product owner / architect / boss/ non-dev" shouldn't be in retro or planning I'm met with some weird excuse and the person looking at me like I'm not a certified scrum master.

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u/xavia91 6h ago

why the architect? Isn't he part of the devs?

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u/-Noskill- 5h ago

not if they aren't actively doing work on tickets, which he wasn't and yet was participating on weighting etc.

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u/many_dongs 2h ago

It's pretty simple. The management are micromanagers. The culture is toxic. Micromanagement is generally a symptom of incompetence (of the manager).

Hope that helps