[icedchai]

I worked at a failing startup that had embraced agile BS. 4 week sprints, 2-3 days spent on retro and planning meetings. They eventually moved to 2 week sprints, but 2 days of that still went to planning. Each day had a 45 minute standup (with about 20 people from the whole "back end" team.) Each week, there was a department wide standup with over 100 people, from all of engineering! It was insane.

They used an enterprise-grade source control system run by the IT department (Perforce.) It was almost impossible to create a branch. In fact, I saw only one created during my brief 1 year time there.

Since there were no branches, you had "shelve" your changes and get an "in person" code review to merge. If you added something minor, like a new getter, but didn't have a unit test for it, you'd get flagged (even if it was used else where in the code.) It basically took forever to get anything done.

Oh yeah, they never shipped any of this stuff, either.

I could go on...