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Virigoth posted:Anything past a standup is loving worthless for 99% of devs. My entire company basically practices meetings-driven production, whereby 50℅+ of your day is meetings. Everyone in the company (finance/insurance) has some kinda gross LEAN management equivalent of standup, except they're an hour long and include a section where you track metrics and have to explain yourself if you didn't meet a goal (i.e. you're "red") the day before. I hate them and they recently got us doing it, but they know not to go over 10 minute for us devs. Otherwise, we'd mutiny.
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I've been pretty good at forcing the team to keep standups sane, but the new meeting thing is designed to waste time, so  I will make this team agile come hell or high water, though.
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akadajet posted:Switch to a company that doesn't suck as much. Trying to change company culture like that is more trouble than it's worth. Oh, there's no way in hell I'm gonna be able to change that part of the company culture. It's a design-by-committee half-contracted half-homegroan management system meant to manage 5000+ employees. It doesn't do it particularly well but it at least looks like it's working. As much as I like living near work, management being relatively lax about work-life balance (I get to work home every Tuesday and Thursday, or at least do so anyway), and getting decent pay for a Software Engineer (actually, below-average pay), there's many other things about the job that annoy the poo poo out of me. Especially as someone coming from modern engineering practices. I joined the company for a chance to really drive the development and design of an application, and the biggest thing I've learned from doing that is that there's no way in hell I can do that on my own. You need a culture built around it, and that's not something I can replace or do without. The next place I work, I'll be going back to something with actual decent development and management practices. I just don't know what to do next, after this job.
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