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Any fellow Product Managers out there with fun stories to tell about working with developers who vehemently refuse to cut benign architectural corners to shave weeks off the ETA on a business-critical feature? Any developers out there with stories about working with product managers who sit in their ivory tower, demand convoluted features with impossible timelines, and act like Steve Jobs with low blood sugar when you propose a simpler implementation that doesn't compromise the user experience? Talk about managing products or managing Product Managers here! 
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Content: I loathe traditional Agile user story syntax; when our team switched from waterfall to Agile a few years ago, all of our tickets were titled in accordance with scripture, and it was infuriatingly difficult to parse through a sprint/backlog full of tens/hundreds of tickets that all read like "As a user I want [awkwardly-phrased description of feature]". So a few sprints into our Agile foray, I just started naming tickets like: Improve pageload speed to <4 seconds instead of: As a User, I want the application to load in under 4 seconds so that I don't think the application has crashed Multiple Dev and QA folks independently thanked me for doing this, but the team's project manager, who is a slavish devotee to traditional Agile process (he has "certified scrum master" on his resume), hated it so much that he still snipes at me about it, years later. This is despite the fact that he doesn't bat an eyelash when the team team habitually inflates their story point estimation methodology to create the illusion of ever-increasingly velocity (I don't give a poo poo; I know who does work, and things take as long as they take). Clearly, I'm not over it.
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