We spend all of our time doing Agile busywork. Product Management sends 100 people to a two day bootcamp on Innovation to blame us for not having any ideas for sellable products. SF programmers are going to be laid off because PM is too busy working on their powerpoint vision slides to talk to customers. Lectures on how you are not doing your part because the dashboard says so. Lets set up some meetings to talk about it. Does Goodnight know what is happening?
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One fine year the Product Management division had all the product managers learn how to prepare a TED-style talk in their area. We spent months developing and recording the talks. Guess how much use was ever made of any of those talks.
Sounds exactly like what's been going on in marketing all year.
Meetings, slides, strategy, planning, dashboards, vision, brainstorms, whiteboards ... and nobody is actually getting anything DONE. Everything cycles and people make comments, nothing gets resolved, it's a nightmare.
Somebody needs to get control of this situation. It's so out of hand.
it came from ever more inept management, at best good at demos, never with any meaningful experience in engineering or managing products to gain actual traction
Paralysis by analysis. Ironic that those doing nothing are the same ones who believe they are movers and shakers.