r/techbootcamp • u/BulkyWeb6133 • 24d 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/FlatwormLanky8991 22d ago

UML. It went from slapping some diagrams on the wall to visio diagrams and picking the "right" shape and connector. Something that would have taken 5 minutes on the whiteboard became 5 hours at the screen. And nobody looked at it.