[Fanmade]

This is the first time that I saw this blog and I've now read a bunch of those posts. There is so much gold there, it's incredible. So much is going wrong in all those companies, that it is just frustrating to be working in those.

A colleague of mine and me got the opportunity a while back to basically work as wanted to in one side project. So we just worked truly agile, without any of the "Scrum" bs around it. Everyone involved was blown away how successful it was in terms of implementation. Two companies tried it before in the span of a year, and they didn't get it working at all. We worked just some evenings and weekends outside of our full-time job over the span of six weeks, and we got 90% done, with everything essential included to be able to start working with it. We then implemented everything else the customer wanted within the next weeks by following the same principles. There were no problems at all (apart from the customer basically almost running out of money because they spent most of on the previous companies which couldn't deliver).

At my day job, the managers usually argue against anything we want to do, question every decision from our side, want to have regular big meetings with 16+ people to talk about everything at length until no one wants to do it anymore, and then micro-manage everyone to death. We tried to at least keep these guys out of the daily by pointing to the Scrum guide where it says that only people working on tickets should participate, so one of these guys just created a bs task for himself, then talked every day about it for a lengthy amount of time without providing any real value at all.

I never got those silly shows before, which play in offices where everyone just acts silly and they never really work. But now I know why they are so popular. They just provide comic relief for people who really have to work in those environments and it is really as bad as in the television shows, if not worse.