My manager uses agile as an excuse to shove ambiguous and half-baked Jira features down all of our throats. There is no guidance or direction given to us at all, it is just "go do this and don't get it wrong". Then when we make decisions we get questioned later on why we did it that way. Agile is trash and needs to be discontinued. Then if a story sits open for more than a day we get questioned for it. If one person really shines on a team, they get beaten down and called names instead of being given due credit. Meanwhile, incompetent people on the team keep skating by and taking credit for others' work. Fiserv agile is bad agile.
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What a bummer that Agile is so badly implemented there. Agile can be a good mindset to nudge old-fashioned companies into the current day and age as well as update their business processes and development processes. It should NOT be any of the things that are described here.
If this thread is accurate, please know that their Agile approach is NOT what Agile is supposed to be - not at all. It should not at all be "cult-like"! It sounds like they have botched it up royally.
I wouldn't call them agile anything if I had a choice. These are the guys always roaming around the office being social to everyone
Isn't the agile coaches and scrum masters role, to prevent the team from being pestered? Sounds like they are failing hard.
There are a lot of agile coaches and scrum masters in very senior positions who do nothing but pester the team lead for updates. The team lead and developers are still incharge of interfacing with other teams. A big waste of resources
f-agile is the main SDLC. Fiserv's interpretation of again.
Is agile the main sdlc at fiserv
My goodness are you guys still paying agile consultants
That is what it is supposed to be like. Except they should only be reviewing what is open at the end of the sprint. And most stories should be open for most of the sprint.
Sounds like your manager doesn't have anything better to do and wants to fell important.
Dear God yes, agile is like a religion / cult complete with a divine leader story and a holy book.
Scrums = prayer meetings.
Failure = not praying hard enough or “secret sin in your life”
Non believers = cast into the wilderness or he-l.
Agile conferences = your pastors “missions”at a resort city.
When it’s all said and done everything remains the same except the cult leaders only gain more wealth and power.