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jarl-ragnar on March 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Deadlines and sprints are bad for you

I was astounded to watch in one organisation while the Software Eng. Manager talked in terms of sprint failure and turned it into a performance issue. That resulted in all sort of unintended consequences.

je42 on March 9, 2019 [–]

yeah. some people tend to make "under" perf personal.

even some devs to themselves. that's usually totally counter productive. working on getting better is usually the way forward.

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