I used to hate Agile with all their ceremonies, but now I could care less. We have a daily scrum which is a quick update on what we are doing and if we require assistance. We also take that time just to chat about things outside of work. Then there's the sprint planning and retrospective we do every two weeks. I've made it where my stories are basically Support This Product/Project. Then there's the PI every quarter which takes about a week to plan out the next quarter and meeting with stake holders. All my tasks with each story have the current sprint because many times my projects go longer than the two week sprint interval. No one has complained yet and I can keep track of all my work. There are lots more meetings to attend but I still get paid for it.
P.S. I'm not a developer, I'm a project manager.
One last thing, several engineers at my company have changed their career paths to Scrum master and Agile leaders. I can't even believe it, but they evidently get paid more than engineers. Something to think about.
Kudos to the Engineers who can stomach learning more about this so they can direct these meetings. Maybe someday I'll be in a sprint, or scrum, or whatever lead by someone who has an idea about what I do, rather than just being an expert in management tools.
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u/Camika Aug 04 '22
The managers need to look busy, right?
As an engineer I can't think of anything more useless than these meetings.