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Oracle is a law firm disguised as a tech company
I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.
Oracle is a law firm disguised as a tech company
One common thread between these projects was that we used actual, physical note cards to track things. They were also logged in Jira, but the standups were 5-10 people actually standing in a room tracking burn down and status with cards taped to a wall. Nobody wants to be standing for more than 15 minutes, and anything that needed a sidebar was handled with a smaller group in another impromptu meeting.
“Never tell them how long it will really take! How else will people see you as a miracle worker?” - Scotty
Congratulations you’ve just been promoted to product manager
I’ve been in agile projects that worked really well and didn’t have soul-sucking, time-wasting meetings. It can be done well, it just isn’t most of the time.
I can’t envision a federated service dying. Even if it’s me pedaling a bike to run a raspberry pi hosting an instance that’s just me posting it’ll exist.
You can’t automate away all the unpleasant and technical bits.
But it’s our job to try
I remember getting the same crash course after 9/11.
(Maybe not the best phrasing.)
I’m all for eliminating marketing jobs, but not if we still have marketing.