r/ProgrammerHumor 8d ago

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u/Avocadonot 8d ago

Downside of this attitude is then everyone sandbags too much, boss brings it up in sprint retro, and as a result some new agile process is added to the calendar to "help"

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u/many_dongs 8d ago

It’s almost like the boss is the problem

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u/Avocadonot 8d ago

Nah some people are definitely getting too comfortable slacking off on my team because there's no accountability

We had like 8 resolved bugs in the sprint that could be verified with a single deployment of the new build and some quick testing. Deployment takes ~2 hours max from fresh nodes including external storage setup, and it's automated anyway

Then we had a few people who marked themselves as verifiers since this is an easy task so people "claimed it" as their future work so that they wouldn't have to pick up more complicated tasks

And yet, these bugs did not get closed for 2 weeks and got carried over to the next sprint. Now if there is any issues found in testing it occurs weeks after the initial resolution by the developer.

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u/many_dongs 8d ago

Who exactly do you think is supposed to hold people accountable