My first job was at a very large company where every team was required to have a Product Owner, Scrum Master, Business Analyst, QA and then however many devs were on that project.
Our product owner broke her foot one weekend and wanted to sit during Monday's standup meeting. Our scrum master demanded she either stand or leave the meeting. Arguing ensued, loudly.
I bring this up only to say, our industry, while being very progressing in some areas, also happens to be extremely dogmatic about some ridiculous concepts without really understanding them.
Well for one, consultants are rarely brought in to working, well-functioning companies.
Also, scrum (as in the dot-org) doesn’t do a great job of teaching management how to measure the performance of their team so it’s very easy to be bad at anything for a long time and never know it if you’re also bad at management.
I find anything (including scrum) works pretty well if you send your management team out for training too, and don’t let them piss around with soft metrics.
Hm, is this illegal in the US? From a brief search, I think that since the 2008 amendments to the ADA, temporary but severe injuries give you protection under the ADA, and being able to sit during standup seems like an entirely reasonable accomodation.
I remember in 1999 when i had my first programming job while i was in the Uni. It was simple, i had a part of the software to built, i estimated how much time it was going to take and i built it. No stupid time consuming ceremonies.
I guess that the new "gamerization" has been partly caused by millennials and other contemporary generations need for constant recognition.
Our product owner broke her foot one weekend and wanted to sit during Monday's standup meeting. Our scrum master demanded she either stand or leave the meeting. Arguing ensued, loudly.
I bring this up only to say, our industry, while being very progressing in some areas, also happens to be extremely dogmatic about some ridiculous concepts without really understanding them.