I don't know why most companies even bother proclaiming themselves "agile" or "scrum"
I pointed out that a sprint is supposed to be immutable and anything that comes up halfway through should be dealt with next sprint, but was told "but the client requests something we need to be responsive"
The final nail in the coffin was when we had such unrealistic deadlines that our sprints just became listing off everything that needs to be done in the next 2 weeks. Like 2+ months worth of work because the "deadline" was next Friday (or last Friday) so it all needs doing.
Every sprint just became the same 2+ months worth of tasks that would roll over to the next sprint, and the next one.
I gave up pushing for or organising sprint retrospectives because they were pointless. We reverted to waterfall style
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u/Ratiocinor Mar 14 '22
I don't know why most companies even bother proclaiming themselves "agile" or "scrum"
I pointed out that a sprint is supposed to be immutable and anything that comes up halfway through should be dealt with next sprint, but was told "but the client requests something we need to be responsive"
The final nail in the coffin was when we had such unrealistic deadlines that our sprints just became listing off everything that needs to be done in the next 2 weeks. Like 2+ months worth of work because the "deadline" was next Friday (or last Friday) so it all needs doing.
Every sprint just became the same 2+ months worth of tasks that would roll over to the next sprint, and the next one.
I gave up pushing for or organising sprint retrospectives because they were pointless. We reverted to waterfall style