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God, as a true scrummaster - one who believes in actual scrum - where the devs make the rules - not management.. this hurts. This hurts so goddamn much.
And on and on, and of course you all know this. The term "Agile" has been so bastardized from it's conception by management who think it's a micromanagement tool. It's quite literally the opposite. It's mean to put the power in the hands of the developers - so they can be efficient and keep management out of their way. Management just couldn't handle handing over a tiny bit of power though. Have to break the fundamental pillars of agile, like dictating what a point is, or how long things should take. Ugh.
My job uses Safe. It's the bastardized scrum you speak of.
Are points the complexity, effort or time? Yes. No. No. Maybe. Yes. Who knows?
They also sum our teams capacity as if we are interchangeable cogs doing the 1 same simple task.
We have endless meetings. Daily 1hrs. Follow up to the follow up. Meeting to plan meetings. (I wish I was joking on this next on) Planning meetings to plan for the upcoming planning meetings.
It's chaos.
It's hell.
I get 5% as much actual work done as I used to. Not even joking. It's bad.
Im not in the industry and the answer to my question might be part of the problem: have you tried to say something? / what was the outcome of you criticising the whole planning and meeting mentality?
Not the person you're answering but usually these are not a root problem but only a symptom. The answer will range from being told that you are the problem to "let's schedule a meeting to discuss that".
The mentality usually stems from higher up, and you don't really get to speak to people originating policy.
Yeah, if middle management micromanages you, that's likely because their boss makes them answer some uncomfortable questions, if anything goes wrong.
I remember when I first read about AGILE. I was like "this is pretty cool - but there's no way corporations will actually adopt this methodology without completely turning it into just a set of new names for the same shit they've always done." Naturally, that's exactly what happened.
I've had about three companies do agile correctly. They were either less than 10 people total or did not care at all. Any company with middle management dipped their toes in, I think because they need to prove their existence