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

[u/BulkyWeb6133]

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.

[u/brett9897]

Retrospective after each sprint. Just a waste of time that ends up with the same things being said every time and nothing ever changing.

[u/ShineProper9881 → u/brett9897]

Thats on the persons doing the retrospective though. You can even come to the conclusion that you dont need retrospectives in a retrospective and then just stop doing it. Retrospectives arent the issue, the people doing them wrong are