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Xguard86 posted:The good ones these days tend to focus on something more specific than overall agile development. Because it's been exhausted and co-opted to death on the negative side and more positivity; there's just a greater body of knowledge and perspective. Good question. I get the basics on Kanban, small batches/commits in terms of physical inputs/outputs thanks to some Lean experience. I'd like more info on the people aspects of self-governing teams, self-assigning work and how individual team members fit themselves into the larger process. FWIW I have tracked down a practice guide which is pretty good so far.
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Love Stole the Day posted:The buzz word right now is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrumban afaik Ban scrum more like
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ThePopeOfFun posted:Good question. I get the basics on Kanban, small batches/commits in terms of physical inputs/outputs thanks to some Lean experience. I'd like more info on the people aspects of self-governing teams, self-assigning work and how individual team members fit themselves into the larger process. FWIW I have tracked down a practice guide which is pretty good so far. Link the guide? I'm curious to see. Generally content around empowered teams has what you're looking for. SVP and Marty cagan have a lot of content but there's others. Maybe also things like "continue discovery" or similar which is focused on having teams directly and frequently engage with customers and their needs. All of this is of course antithetical to how most large businesses want to operate their tech teams. So you know prepare to be disappointed.
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Xguard86 posted:Link the guide? I'm curious to see. Fortunately, I'm in the rare business that runs their software team as such. The one caveat being that I haven't been here long enough to see the underbelly. If you searched up a pdf of the latest Agile Practice Guide, I imagine you could find it pretty easily.
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ThePopeOfFun posted:Fortunately, I'm in the rare business that runs their software team as such. The one caveat being that I haven't been here long enough to see the underbelly. This? From PMI? https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards/practice-guides/agile
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That's the one.
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Love Stole the Day posted:Is there anything more fun than asking a team to do something that only they have the power to do, listening to them ask you to make a ticket, watching that ticket go 1 month out of 2-week SLA despite reminding them weekly about it, only for them to say it's out of their scope, re-assign it to yet another team, listen to them say we must now wait for their SLA, and then assign it to a person on their team who's on vacation this week¿ Also the other team's SLA is 3 weeks. Update: Eng Director escalated not just to their VP but to the SVP above them and also an adjacent VP... and 10 minutes later not only does the original team start responding to us, but they: conveniently forgot that punted the ticket after 3 weeks of silence, suddenly want to own the task, and immediately schedule a meeting to discuss it with us! Clearly I have a lot to learn about navigating bureaucracies.
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Love Stole the Day posted:Update: Eng Director escalated not just to their VP but to the SVP above them and also an adjacent VP... and 10 minutes later not only does the original team start responding to us, but they: conveniently forgot that punted the ticket after 3 weeks of silence, suddenly want to own the task, and immediately schedule a meeting to discuss it with us! Always punt to your boss when bureaucracy gets in the way. Make it their problem, not yours.
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Director announced that due to nobody wanting to be on the CS escalation team because of its on-call rotation, all of engineering is going on-call
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ploots posted:Director announced that due to nobody wanting to be on the CS escalation team because of its on-call rotation, all of engineering is going on-call I'm assuming the director is not included in this, however.
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ploots posted:Director announced that due to nobody wanting to be on the CS escalation team because of its on-call rotation, all of engineering is going on-call Leaving sounds like a great decision
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ploots posted:Director announced that due to nobody wanting to be on the CS escalation team because of its on-call rotation, all of engineering is going on-call
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ploots posted:Director announced that due to nobody wanting to be on the CS escalation team because of its on-call rotation, all of engineering is going on-call Time to 
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ploots posted:Director announced that due to nobody wanting to be on the CS escalation team because of its on-call rotation, all of engineering is going on-call turn off your work phone when on the rotation. When asked about it say it ran out of power after leaving the office
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ploots posted:Director announced that due to nobody wanting to be on the CS escalation team because of its on-call rotation, all of engineering is going on-call Monkey's paw this. Everyone stops writing code and going to scrum meetings and just "works on escalations."
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Anyone have a good template for doing a "post-mortem" on a issue/ticket?
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:Monkey's paw this. Everyone stops writing code and going to scrum meetings and just "works on escalations." This is the way.
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brand engager posted:Anyone have a good template for doing a "post-mortem" on a issue/ticket? Make a Confluence article timeline of everything that happened, and then highlight stuff to add your commentary on things. Do a 1 hr meeting where everybody reads the article together for the first 10-20 minutes, adding their own comments on stuff as they go, and keep notes on the stuff everyone agrees about. After the meeting, copy-paste those notes at the top of the article in a new section and call it "Takeaways" or "Outcomes" or "Learnings" or something like that.
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brand engager posted:Anyone have a good template for doing a "post-mortem" on a issue/ticket? My company does a process that is fairly similar to this, it might give you some ideas https://response.pagerduty.com/after/post_mortem_template/
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Love Stole the Day posted:Make a Confluence article timeline of everything that happened, and then highlight stuff to add your commentary on things. trem_two posted:My company does a process that is fairly similar to this, it might give you some ideas https://response.pagerduty.com/after/post_mortem_template/ thanks
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Back to work after 6 months of parental leave and hoooooooooooooooooooooo boy are things Not In Great Order in no particular order: - the project I was working on basically hasn't been generating new user stories since I and a previous manager made a shitton of them like 8 months ago. - our team is on notice because some miscommunications led to some missed client expectations and the finger is pointed firmly in our direction - major senior advocates for our project have voluntarily left due to differences in opinion regarding how things should be run over the last couple months - I've been told by multiple people now how much they were looking forward to me coming back to answer outstanding questions - my role was not backfilled while I was gone on the plus side, my Work Nemesis was shown the door, so that's a big win for me
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Oct 11, 2022 18:41
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Demand more money to save their asses or walk.
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Pollyanna posted:Demand more money to save their asses or walk. I doubt ChickenWings bosses recognize there is an issue
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Oct 12, 2022 14:58
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Rare situation where things really did fall apart without you. As above said though: too bad that mgmt that let's that happen is also mgmt who wouldn't understand they should retain you.
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After an absence of 6 months, it's probably your fault (somehow)
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Turambar posted:After an absence of 6 months, it's probably your fault (somehow) Well duh, they weren't there to prevent the problem in the first place. 
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Pollyanna posted:Demand more money to save their asses or walk. Yeah we're gonna see how things are looking in the next few weeks but I'm thinking that if this is a situation where I return and am somehow single-handedly righting the course, there's gonna be a pretty imminent conversation about the value of keeping me around, especially considering there's a number of places opening up shop in Toronto that are offering US-scale salaries. I don't have a ton of faith in my company's desire to pay me more (managers, yes. company's desire to pay market salaries, not so much), so we'll have to see.
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loving hell why is teams so awful e: "pay me more to retain me or I'm going to leave on the basis of having to use Teams alone"
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Could be worse, you could have Teams, Slack *and* Skype. And no, I don't mean Skype for Business.
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I currently have to use teams and slack. 80% teams and 20% slack. It's a baffling setup, because people will randomly choose to use one or the other with no discernable pattern. I loathe teams.
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Teams is the worst chat app I've ever used, and I've used some stinkers. Sometimes it will simply stop receiving messages with no indication. How would I ever know if they fixed that issue?
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Oh yeah how could I bitch about our Teams and not also complain about how they force us to log in on a biweekly basis for "security" except the login prompt doesn't work right half the time for whatever reason. Guess it's pretty secure if nobody can login every two weeks??
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Teams only likes left channel mic inputs. I had to install VoiceMeeter to make Teams happy when my interface’s left input went out and no one could hear me while plugged into the right. I should probably just get a usb mic for work, but it’s a silly quirk.
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Honestly, there are zero good chat / voice apps. Each one seems to have it's quirks and stupids. Slack is probably the closest but a web guy ended up as the designer, so it's UX is hosed for anything that isn't trivial and it's slow as gently caress - not being able to split out channels into their own windows is a huge throw. Teams is a never-ending pile of work arounds and compromises it seems. I haven't used it through for 3~ years. Discord has the same UX issue as Slack and just doesn't scale to 'I need to have context of several conversations at once'. Skype is the worst.
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The worst part of Teams is the file navigation. It looks like Windows Explorer but some of the controls don't do what you'd think. In particular, trying to predict where the back button will take you is a hard problem.
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Ice Fist posted:I currently have to use teams and slack. 80% teams and 20% slack. It's a baffling setup, because people will randomly choose to use one or the other with no discernable pattern. When I started here, all the business people were on Skype and all the tech people were on HipChat (RIP). Somehow they got everyone to switch to Slack. (HipChat had a 5K user limit, which was just an amusing way to torpedo your product for big enterprise.)
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smackfu posted:When I started here, all the business people were on Skype and all the tech people were on HipChat (RIP). Somehow they got everyone to switch to Slack. TIL: Hipchat was shutdown just after we migrated off of it. At the time we had like a 2k user hipchat instance and it was fine, we switched to Slack and it was slightly faster, but it meant we had to update all our webhook code. Now it's so much easier, we're on Teams, and we don't have webhooks!
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I oddly enough have a good time with the Teams web client in a browser on my otherwise completely unsupported Linux rig for work. It does better than the Windows client on my issued laptop. The dedicated Linux client comes in last and is very out of date.
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Ice Fist posted:I currently have to use teams and slack. 80% teams and 20% slack. It's a baffling setup, because people will randomly choose to use one or the other with no discernable pattern. Yeah we have the same setup, mainly because our IRC-a-like is slack (so for quick calls to one or two people it's easiest just to use that) but apparently it really doesn't scale so for like company wide meetings and stuff, that's teams.
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