Scrum IS AWESOME

Scrum is just an abbrevation for Scrotum. The letters o and t are in a meeting, so they couldn't show up.

Vertical monitors have their very productive uses, like virtual pinball and spaceship shooters.

My first exposure to scrum: Me: But why? We've beat deadline every time and ship without any major bugs. Boss: Its apparently the new thing. Also, my wifes sister does it for a living and we just hired her. 3 month later, we have missed deadlines and shipped major bugs. Boss: I guess this is normal as a breaking in period but it will improve. Me: Imagine how much more work we could have done if we hired another dev over a scum master. Boss: Yeaaaaahhhh

My whole team has been sandbagging for years now, overestimating everything and barely working, but we keep getting paid by the customer. thanks scrum!

as a pretty old developer, when Scrum first hit, i was all in. no PM, ability to iterate, developers doing their own estimates, mandatory participation by the stakeholders, the ability to fail sprints if something goes off the rails ... hell yeah ! but what it turned into was "professional" Scrum "masters" and a daily meeting asking "are you done yet", zero requirements, and zero participation and accountability from the stakeholders.

We've never done any "sprint catchup" anywhere I've been. If we did not make the things in the sprint, they were just moved to the next sprint and that sprint was adjusted accordingly. Sprints are never planned any further than the next sprint, and they are just the highest priority tasks from the backlog. I would absolutely refuse to do any overwork sprint catchup if asked, only thing I would do overwork for, would be critical production bugs, and I'm pretty sure most of the people I've worked with would be the same.

Now having SCRUM with remote teams, now thats another dimension of horror.

About the posture. Folks, I had a neurosurgery on my spine 8 month ago because of hernia explosion. It was painful and I almost lost my leg (got partial paralysis in my feet). Now I am on rehab and 80% normal, but still feeling shitty. All the problems start from bad posture and lack of activity - sports. Be careful with your body, it becomes fragile under work routine pressure and inactivity.

When you're 20 ergonomics is 'bullshit'. When coming up on 50 it's the first thing you consider after where the bathroom is.

Man, making half an hour reaction from 5 min vid is pure talent. Love you prime