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“We hold a meeting to talk about the meetings, and another to plan the meetings about the meetings.“ I dropped scrum last year.
And some of them book meetings to try to justify their presence.
Blaming scrum for having meetings on the calendar is a scapegoat. You will have those meetings show up regardless of what processes you chose to replace scrum.
“Interactive obituary - 22 min” Ugh is there a regular text version I can read at my own pace? Also why light text on black background? Hurts my eyes and is very difficult to read. Guess I’ll wait for someone with more patience and better eyesight to maybe provide a summary or something :)
Yeah, this seems like it could have been a few paragraphs. It goes on and on. I’ll give my hot take without reading. I’ve been in a lot of kinds of scrum and it seems like a YMMV thing. The most effective scrums are the ones which start from first principle and create a process for the teams current needs. Many of the most effective ones worked out of a spreadsheet or Google doc rather than an issue tracker. Sometime…
So an author whose company sells AI tools to organizations has published an AI-written sensationalist website detailing how horrible the "old way" of doing things is, in the hope that more people will pay them for their "new way" products. Wow, color me shocked.
I ain't reading all this AI crap. Just do a "buy me" website.
It is actually less SAD than SAFe
“Interactive obituary - 22 min” Ugh is there a regular text version I can read at my own pace? Also why light text on black background? Hurts my eyes and is very difficult to read. Guess I’ll wait for someone with more patience and better eyesight to maybe provide a summary or something :)
im really curious how you think this is worse than the other way around
“We hold a meeting to talk about the meetings, and another to plan the meetings about the meetings.“ I dropped scrum last year.
People must realize that it's people who book meetings, not processes. And some of them book meetings to try to justify their presence. Blaming scrum for having meetings on the calendar is a scapegoat. You will have those meetings show up regardless of what processes you chose to replace scrum.
SCRUM by definition is meetings.
in fact, I like this topic, because usually people use the motte and bailey of Agile. (as in, Agile is a manifesto to some, or a process to someone else) but scrum is super well defined, and it is defined by: structured meetings.
Screw you
UGH I tried to copy-paste that part ("Start writing specs in a way..."), but I couldn't because of this obnoxious fucking interactivity! Why write an essay if people can't share the parts they find interesting???? Again this stuff is designed to impede critical long-distance thought by throwing up a bunch of short-range distractions. It even works on the humans and LLMs writing it. This essay really is incoherent.
Also as someone who used to work manual QA for fairly sensitive finance/pharmaceutical software, this part is darkly funny (I actually could put it on my clipboard, god I hate JS):
Then · circa 2001
6 weeks
Submit code. Wait for QA. Get a bug list. Negotiate. Fix. Wait again.
Now · 2026
6 seconds
Type, save, hot-reload, AI suggests a fix, tests run in parallel. The build itself talks back to you.
Speaking of, it's so depressing to see this written by an actual company trying to sell stuff:
Treat agents as teammates
Specify, dispatch, and verify. Stop treating AI as autocomplete; start treating it as a junior engineer who works at machine speed.
“Interactive obituary - 22 min” Ugh is there a regular text version I can read at my own pace? Also why light text on black background? Hurts my eyes and is very difficult to read. Guess I’ll wait for someone with more patience and better eyesight to maybe provide a summary or something :)
> Also why light text on black background? im really curious how you think this is worse than the other way around