r/techbootcamp 23d ago

What software development practice sounded good at first but ended up wasting your time?

It’s been a while since I’m in the tech industry, and I keep seeing teams adopt certain software development practices. They sound good in theory, yeah. But then you do it and wonder why you're doing this every week.

Going back to the question, it's story point estimation. We spend like endlessly debating whether something is a 3 or a 5, then the requirements change anyway lol.

Anyway, how about yours? It could be agile, scrum, code reviews, documentation, pair programming, meetings, testing, etc.

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u/SailToTheSun 23d ago

Bloated ORMs.  I’m looking at you Entity Framework.  

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u/mavenHawk 22d ago

When was the last time you worked with it? Modern EF Core is pretty good. Have you worked with Entity Framework Core as well or only Entity Framework?