Already a reality here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2iaMCmOrh4

Hey, the one responsible to maximize the value is the Product Owner, not the devs. We’re only responsible in taking the PBIs in the backlog that’s ordered based on value and delivering it. Whether it is really valuable or not is the responsibility of the Product Owner.

Damn this is one really hot take 😭

Blame management for that. I implemented Scrum in a project that I took over without any changes to the framework and it is great. We are able to keep a healthy work life balance, no overtime, good relationship between the product and the engineering team, and the most important thing is on time feature delivery.

I think it’s a behavior from work got carried over answering questions in StackOverflow. Usually when there’s a request from client/PM/PO, I usually ask them what they want to achieve by requesting said feature, usually after asking that question they will think and find out that making that pet feature is not the best way to achieve that goal.

As a Software Engineer we’re conditioned to respond that way to a question, and when we go to websites that’s specifically to answer questions, we are still answering questions from fellow technical people in that same mindset, which is not helpful.

However, I’ve used the condescending answers from StackOverflow to my advantage. Sometimes in a project we’ll get businesspeople with a technical background, either they used to be an engineer 15 years ago or they studied computer science in university but transitioned to product management after graduation. If they are really insistent on some technical detail, I usually created a StackOverflow question based on their request and show them all the comments telling how stupid that idea is.

Banking and finance industry in general is a nightmare to work on. Chock full of company politics, shit project management, shit work hours, although the pay is good but it isn’t worth it for my sanity.

We had a crunch time where the devs basically need to live in the office, only going home to get new clothes. Even after all that work, the management decided to switch focus and we had to scrap all the work done for the past 3 months.

One project basically got delayed for multiple years and ended when the PM died of heart attack.

Thankfully I’m out of that industry and now working in a consulting company that’s managed by engineers from top to bottom. Although there’s still some politics, at least it’s on the client side.