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cascer1944yManager: "don't think of story points as an amount of time"
also manager: "1 story point is 1 day"
also manager: "we're in a hurry you can do those 3 story points in 1 day" -
I'll be they think their Product Owners are actual Product Owners and not glorified order takers too.
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Hazarth94864yIt's not agile if an iteration is 3 months long...
Agile means the development can adapt quickly... Quaterly isn't quickly...
Sure, maybe It's using pieces of scrum, but it's not using any sort of agile methodology...
And even then agile is mostly a buzzword... -
cascer1944y@Hazarth trust me, we agree entirely. The team is quite frustrated with this approach but the customer won't budge
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