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If that looks "suspicious" to an employer, you don't want to work there.

Say no and find a better job if your manager doesn't like it.

But a project is. Get rid of the sprints.

Scrum is kind of a big red flag these days. One technical status meeting a week is plenty (as you'd have pursuing a PhD).

Just get rid of the "sprints".

Daily "check ins" is way excessive. One status meeting a week is plenty.

If they're also should-you-be-fired-today interrogations, then it appears that the organizations real problem is toxicity.

It's maybe a marker of the (western) petit bourgeois. Upper class put up with it less.

Software estimation doesn't work for non-trivial tasks (and trivial ones should be automated, making them non-trivial).

It's like asking a mathematician to "estimate" how long that theorem is going to take to get proven.

"Yah". Few generations ago, you could buy property cash in a "NIMBY hellhole", that is a place where you can find gainful employment, on a few years worth of savings. Not the case anymore. Property prices inflated much more than CPI.

Compare to 30 years ago instead. Wealth in terms of being able to buy property is decreasing in many countries, which can be more significant than any increased ability to buy consumer gadgets (that will spy on you). And the countries with less wealth inequality don't in principle have less wealthy common people.

What other profession? When and if it can actually write code, making a ppt or sitting in a pointless meeting is a long solved problem.

It will put everyone else producing ppts and excel sheets out of work first.

Then we'd automate the non-programmer first.

Sure, show me the two-day course I can take that enables me to work in a hospital micro-managing the doctors.

Software engineers already automated that. We know if the server is down.

Daily interrogations by someone who finished a two-day "agile" course. Doctors don't have to put up with this. Or you could always get a better job that doesn't do "standups".

Forced full-time "pair programming" might by itself cause burnout in a lot of people.

I wonder how many mathematicians would put up with something like that. Full-time pair proving.

Also known as a to-do list outside of Japan. It's a valid tool, mostly unlike the corporate agile insanity that often comes with it.

Forgot "too many meetings that could have been an email"

But didn't quit LinkedIn.

In 2015, fully autonomous driving was a year away. We will see. Though I don't mind copilot automating simpler plumbing tasks personally. To replace human programmers, it'd have to replace mathematicians first.

Copilot hardly replaces a human. It might replace making a Github search manually.

Imagine taking a two day course and then going into the office of a law firm or a hospital and micromanaging the staff. Tragic that software engineers put up with this.

Are employees looking for "agile" companies? Seems more like a red flag for micromanagement nowadays.

How does SAFe reliably identify "low performers"? Top companies tend not to do SAFe, I don't see the issue this solves. But I'd easily see SAFe creating low performers.

> at the standup

"Standups" are micromanagement. Which other high level profession does this. Doctors are not interrogated daily by some charlatan with a certificate for a 2 day course. PhD programs in CS/Maths tend not to do "standups". Asynchronous communication could replace most meetings at your regular CRUD sweatshop anyway.

You should ask (and preferably asynchronously, not by having random long meetings). Spending 7-8 hours working out a solution is however normal (on working with actual complex systems, like during a PhD, you might go a week between meetings but varies according to actual needs).

You seem to be describing micromanagement.

The one that sent out the invitation

There's nothing rude about non-video calls. They are frequently carried out between heads of state or royalty, that is at the highest level of politeness.

If people are disinterested, you might want to invite less people to your meeting or use email.

Sure there is. On your theme, say Woody Allen.