What do you guys think about SCRUM and Agile methodologies?

It's a meme.

All the NEETS are going to say it's a meme, and anybody who actually has nice things to say about it is busy having sex, or drinking with their friends, or working.

I don't know but I'm a systems engineer that mostly does programming to automate things. I just got told we're forming a dedicated devops derp team that I'll be on and we'll be going full agile like our normal dev teams. Have to spend a week doing agile training soon.

There are some good ideas there, but in practice it's putting a bunch of rabid cats in a sack. 99% of the program is done and you have to squash a ton of bugs before the next sprint, or the thing won't ever start. Just like common development.

It could work if we got some people trained on its basics, but we only get "1 week courses" that barely touch upon anything of value.

Like with UML. It has a ton of stuff to make diagrams for teams, but even the guy who made it said he only ever uses it to do prototyping, not actually during development.

>>60352862
So which one are you?

I just started working for a fortune 50 conglomerate. My office literally has more architects than developers. We're on sprint 6 of my project and apparently we aren't allowed to start developing yet because they're still arguing about the architecture and we're still "sizing" tasks. I'm spending more time in meetings than actually writing code.

That being said I like scrum. It standardizes the development process and keeps everything smooth and productive, and it ensures high quality software.

>>60353148
>it ensures high quality software.
>Implying

>>60353247
You can't just hand requirements to your team and say "do this in 6 months". It's gonna be a mess, it'll miss the deadline, and it won't be what you wanted.

>>60352788

It makes sure everyone's on the same page.

I hate the people who are religious zealots about it, but it's necessary and proved to be effective.

Story points are fuckin' stupid though.

>>60352788
It works well for small teams but agile doesn't scale once your team gets to a certain size or needs to Cooperate with many other teams.

>>60353626
>>60353464
it's stupid though because it's not like everyone can work on every task
basically we always end up with a guy who is the "X guy" and a guy who is the "Y guy" more or less
then all X tasks go to guy X and all Y tasks go to guy Y.
Then there's no need to size stuff and do as if "anyone can do anything" when it never happens.
Also it's retarded to do status sync at stand-ups between guy X and guy Y because they don't work on the same shit