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by lph 978 days ago
Such bad memories of the team where everything was oriented around the weekly demo: One day a week spent on throwaway work to make a demo run, and then getting yelled at for not being productive enough.
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I’m probably being a bit naive here but isn’t the idea that you are just demo-ing the work your team is already meant to be doing? In that case turning the work into a demo should be as simple as running a bunch of tests on a big screen. Tests that you would be writing anyway.

What am I missing?

Office politics.
Like a manager forcing you to make the sexy bits first so the demos look nice?