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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Project Management/Agile Horrors: Got caught cheating at planning poker
 
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I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
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Because I felt it was detracting from the Coding horrors thread I have created the PM and agile horrors thread. Please post awful practices your workplace has here and discuss them.

Before you post, keep the following in mind:

- All project management methodologies are terrible.
- Agile is terrible
- Waterfall is old and terrible
- All managers are bastards.

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I would blow Dane Cook
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Just received the agenda for today's standup :(


Biowarfare posted:

Not agile or anything but:

I once took an "internship" at an online mmorpg publisher. In California. My supervisor spoke only Korean and very very little English. My summer group was basically all Korean but me so the guy just held planning meetings in Korean.

One of the other interns took pity and translated for me afterward. The codebase was commented in a mix of English, Korean, and mojibake because every other person had a different encoding set of euc-KR and utf-8 and ascii, and enough of it required asking someone that spoke Korean what the gently caress something did.

Hmm i think your avatar has identified your former employer hehe.

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From a friend:

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new world record: 40 minute standup

And yes they were standing up.

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I love me some hour long standups.

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