> first job 13+ years ago any QA...
such QA jobs no longer exists. Ever since the software dev world has moved to doing one's own QA during development, software has been consistently worse in quality. May be there's a correlation there!
such QA jobs no longer exists. Ever since the software dev world has moved to doing one's own QA during development, software has been consistently worse in quality. May be there's a correlation there!
Companies abuse Agile so they don't have to plan or think about stuff anymore. In the past decade, I haven't worked in (or seen) a single team that had had more than 2 weeks of work prepared and designed. This leads to something build 4 weeks ago needing a massive refactor, because we only just realized we would be building something conflicting.
That refactor never happens though, because it takes too much time, so we just find a way to slap the new feature on top of the old one. That then leads to a spaghetti mess and every small change introduces a ton of (un)expected issues.
Sometimes I wish we could just think about stuff for a couple of months with a team of designers before actually starting a multi-year project.
Of course, this way of working is great when you don't know what you'll be building, in an innovative start-up that might pivot 8 times before finding product-market fit. But that's not what many of us in big corp and gov are doing, yet we're using the same process.
OS work is somewhere in between, but definitely more towards the latter category.
Not even architecture is being discussed properly under the guise of being agile, it’ll come by itself.
Absolute insanity.