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[tielan]

So, new manager to the project. Who says she's not going to micromanage us, but has called a 10 minute meeting every day for a status report so we can bring up any roadblocks keeping us from getting things done.

Status report? To me, says "micromanaging".

3rd Party Group has changed the spec for an already-written interface, which changes some fairly key things and requires me to pretty much completely recode the spec.

*sigh*

And today I have a headache.

Although at least I didn't go in to work today - I called in a leave day because the parentals needed picking up from the airport and I didn't want my sister driving in the middle of the cyclonic storms that we've been having for the last two and a half days and nights.

I think this afternoon is the first time the rain has stopped in 60 hours.

Finally: I think I need a nap. To combat that headache.

Comments

[copracat]

Hmm, has someone done a "Scrum" workshop, then?

[tielan]

Me? Or her?

[copracat]

Oh, her! I've a colleague who's recently gone off (in the middle of the last busy week of a project she was running, mind you) to get certified and I'm waiting to see what pain will committed on the rest of us in the name of agile management. I'm quite cynical about it.

[justhuman]

From my perspective as a hardware engineer, agile seems to work pretty well in the software world. They half-implemented for a while on our end of the project. They half they implemented -- short term goal to meet longer term goals actually was good and kept us focused and on track.

They skipped the daily scrums, which I think is a mixed bag. In the hardware world, you often have days of nothin', nothin', nothin' and then bam we're doing things and, oh crap, where's the widget?! Whereas the workflow in software seems more to be they get s a little bit done every day. That being said, our weekly meetings probably weren't enough - because we might have caught the widget thing.

My two cents is that it's much more about micromanaging the project and not necessarily the people.