Anyone else also noticing it ?
Project deadlines are being pulled inwards to end the project by Dec 2022 end or Jan 2023 end.
It clearly looks like a sign of big layoffs coming shortly. Basically idea is to squeeze as much possible of an engineer before laying them off.
Any director care to give some details here please.
Same here. Manager pushing to release a project by early Q1 when it normally would take longer. Other directors in my group pushing unnecessary new programs just to report up to SVP how much “work” they’re doing. Acting like everything is normal. Can’t wait for acquisition to close and this nonsense stops.
Don’t shoot the messenger - believe it or not your call but layoff happening Jan 2023 and lists are prepped and done.
We're an Agile shop. What commitments?
Even when it's clear 1000 items must be delivered for widget/process/product to 'work', we're all lucky if we can pry a handful out of IT sprints in a year.
Agile is a disaster waiting to happen if no one is staffed at the beginning.
Seriously, the entire company's IT motto is WELL, 'I'm' NOT spending money staffing up for your business 'nonsense' of 1000 modules of deliverables for a single year. What do you need all that for...look, best I can do is I can deliver 13 things in a year, pick your priority list of 3 for the current sprint that will take all quarter. IT thinks you can make do with 3 of the items on your list, but we'll see if we can finish any of your 'easy' items too.
Then, as the sprint deadline approaches, 2 of the 3 priorities are dropped, and by end of year, attrition means IT will have half the resources dedicated to to the list of requirements, and a maximum of 4 features, partially delivered, and IT has reported green all year.
I wish I was exaggerating. The worst part is this is easily the third global enterprise I've seen try Agile this way, and it always tries to squeeze 'scope' and never ever tries to staff enough engineers to deliver working code that meets the business needs. Product teams get headcount. IT teams that let us take customer money, who needs 'em?
We're seeing tightened deadlines, but not for layoffs. It is to get our boards clean for the acquisition, which could happen as early as February. Don't read more into it.
Simple answer is they've been too lazy for too long and they're finally doing their job by actually managing their teams to deliver something by a deadline.
Teams have been too lazy for too long and got away with rarely delivering to their commitments and are pi---d they've finally been found out.
Feels sh---y but is normal in any other tech company.