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Spot on. Agile, scrum, standups are just tricks to enforce micromanagement and take agency away from engineers.
Not quite. Agile, when done right, by small-to-medium teams, can be effective. However, whenever a big corporation tries to jump on the agile bandwagon, it turns into nightmare fuel.
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Engineering does not have to lie. All this takes is design and specification upfront, a well-defined feature set, and room for error. Also, avoiding scope creep is paramount.
What's the usual processing speed of a software engineer when it comes to reading through and understanding design & specification? We found that usually either the documentation/specification/requirements are too fine grained (and then they then change all the time, but then there's no real effort/bandwidth to do change management on the specs), or they are not detailed enough, which makes the estimation process a u…
It’s a collaborative effort, not a one-way street, as with most things.