Thread regarding USAA layoffs

"Agile as implemented in big boring companies..." - well said, wow.

I am second cousin of roommate of sister of niece of a secretary’s assistant of a bartender that served drink to assistant of person who reports directly to admin who reports to friend of EMG who says you are being not truthful and trying stir up paya.

2025! Much longer than I thought! Thats great news, now i dont have to stress and can continue to milk my job for another year! No actual work gets done here anyway. Not even sure why we need directors!

Prior to zoom calls we spent most of the day in conference room meetings and stand up huddles. How is it different?

@apv+1ozwfjtV

If so, I’m wondering if I could point at that person. The one I know is a sn-t-nosed child that does nothing but kiss a-s and yell at people.

How many Agile folks do you need to change a light bulb? Answer: almost all of them, since you'll need a planning committee, a group to come up with a storyboard, another group to get the DPO's and execs to buy into this epic, and talk about the change requests that will be needed. Then some intern will walk up and change the bulb, angering the bloated Agile staff and causing them to put the intern on blast. Because he wasn't a team player and also ruined the burndown chart.

Corporate Agile frameworks have to be bloated and hard to 'correctly' implement otherwise there wouldn't be anything to sell corporations.

My main point in posting my comment is not to ID particular individuals, although we can all see the toxic personalities bubbling to the surface during this sad time in USAA's history.

My point is that without effective management, this type of toxic behavior is left unchecked. Who wants to work with such toxic colleagues and ineffective, bloated management? Perhaps now, it is encouraged for all I know. But they will be caught in their own toxic web.

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Was this in Bank IT?

We were having a serious issue with a big-mouthed tech "lead" who was not qualified to lead kindergarteners to the water fountain. He was obviously power grabbing, delegating all the work. The so-called scrum lead recommended that we modify our work agreement! Reminds me of the British diplomat who brought back an agreement to Great Britain, signed by Hi---r for "peace for the all time".

@jqj+1ozwfjtV

Agile as implemented in big boring companies (as opposed to bleeding edge code labs) is a bad joke and a productivity disaster. But it gave companies an excuse to gut a middle layer of management for which technical expertise used to be a core requirement. Now projects can be "managed" by a complete ignoramus who knows nothing but some mo--nic jargon and some scheduling tools. And the responsibility for actual management of technical progress falls back on employees who don't get compensated for the responsibility.

This entire paradigm was always doomed to fail, but have no fear: IT as a service is here to save the day! Now everyone can share a common platform with their competition and we can all have best-in-class tools provided by one of 1-3 identical software platform vendors - whose employee skill set is also circling the drain, just one B-school fad cycle later.

Kick the Agile folks to the curb! As an IT professional for over 15 years, I have never been in so many meetings about technic work run by people who have zero technical experience. All these people can tell you to is fix your labels in Jira.

Good riddance! I would rather have my workload increased than sit on Zoom calls anyway.