I’ve met this bird. It only prioritizes issues as urgent; when interacted with, it’ll say “yes, this is part of MVP”
Could be worse, mine have started saying “the MVP must be feature complete and 100% bug free” but there’s a 0% chance there’s enough budget for that.
And what sort of an MVP is feature-complete and completely bugless?
The one in the manager’s mind, that also isn’t actually an MVP because sales over-promised and now you have to find a way to deliver.
Ahh, sales…
The best sales folks are the ones who promise customers things that are literally impossible (and I do mean literally, eg. promising something that essentially solves the halting problem). Those are always fun to sort out
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Not sure whether to laugh or cry at this one…
Considering what a fucking tragicomedy life on Earth has turned into, I think doing both – possibly at the same time – is a valid reaction
80% of project managers are useless. But if you find a good one, they are worth their weight in gold.
did he also learn to complain about the quality of your work despite clearly being incapable (or unwilling) of doing it better himself?
I see you’ve met my boss.
When I see posts like this I just remember those old crotchety engineers who would gripe about “scrum bad”, then would absolutely refuse to participate in collaborative planning activities with their fellow teammates. They tended to be the primary source of bad vibes and work breakdowns
Found the project manager
They’ll be all replaced by simple AIs
Yeah scrums are great, and just somehow every single company that has them is doing them wrong, it is everyone else’s fault.
So we agree that copy pasting team culture, rather than giving the actual humans agency over the way that they organize themselves, is bad? Scrum is the name of a meeting, not one specific thing, it was just an example
