[soinus]

Same here. After working in academia with no agile process (worked well), in a startup or around 20 engineers using OKRs (worked great) and a big company following SCRUM (nightmarish) I could not agree more with you.

I believe weekly OKRs are the best of two worlds: they are restrictive enough to feel the peer pressure for ones committed goal and descriptive enough for any manager to get a grip on the current situation, while at the same time relaxed enough for engineers to not feel like they are trapped in a cage. One week is plenty of time to either finish some work that just needs to be done or write a small prototype. In fact I liked it so much, that I brought the idea of OKRs back to my research lab and everybody loves it!

Scrum is the worst of this for me. We've rotated through a couple of daily formats and it always feels micromanaged and pointless. In addition to that it takes away the personal feeling of achievement. My best work in this framework has been done when I ignored the framework as the whole...