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   Rebecca (iarna@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 04:49:53 JST Rebecca

   My hot take is that agile is bad actually.

   Every real world implementation I've seen since the term was introduced has rapidly developed into either an attempt to micromanage or an attempt to make programmers fungible or both.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 04:54:18 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @iarna Absolutely no argument from me whatsoever. It's also added to meeting load, involved unhelpful and pseudo-competitive activities like "story point bidding", and damaged team morale. All that, and I've never seen it actually add anything to a team of mine.

     Even worse is that I often work in firmware and other low-level components, which are tied to the inflexible schedules of hardware design and factory runs and which commands a more "waterfall" process; Agile kills in these environments

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     Mx. Aria Stewart (aredridel@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 02:33:07 JST Mx. Aria Stewart

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     @iarna Cosigning this so hard. Not to knock actual agility, but "agile" and especially "Agile" with a capital A, are exactly about micromanagement and fungibility. They are specifically designed to empower management (in the guise of planning) and disempower workers (in the form of alienation from the work itself, replaced by arbitrary and sometimes vicious metrics)

     It's scientific management all over again.

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     Mx. Aria Stewart (aredridel@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2023 02:33:29 JST Mx. Aria Stewart

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     @iarna A team, choosing of its members own volition to use many of these tools? Might in fact do amazing things with them, light and agile, but that's because the power structure is not in conflict with the goal or anyone's humanity.

     But the moment it's trying to coerce more work out of workers, which it always does when there's adverse power structure, it turns into this. And that's the key to the deception: if you ignore the power structure it all seems fine.