[jedberg]

My favorite scrum story: When I worked at reddit, we were still owned by Condé Nast, and we worked in the corner of the Wired magazine office. Condé Nast got a new CTO, who was completely all-in on agile. To the point that she called everyone into a conference room to read us the agile manifesto word for word.

We then went back to our little corner conference room and continued to build things in an agile way, like we had been doing for years, without all the meetings.

The poor Wired folks suffered a worser fate, and had to have all the meetings.

[pllbnk]

It's the reddest of the red flags to have such CTO. Modern incompetent CTOs are measuring performance by token spend. They are in the same bucket though - coming up with some dogmatic ways with extremely thin foundation.

[jedberg]

She didn’t last long.

[sshine]

I had a CTO like that.

Didn’t last long either.

Sadly, neither did the company.