This isn't nearly as bad as the others here but recently our scrum master came back from scrum of scrums and said everyone was massively over pointing stories because apparently it looks so bad to management if you don't complete something within it's estimate.
A week later I finished something early and was instructed to not bring anything else into the sprint because, you know, visibility is more important than actually being productive.
I get that deadlines and metrics are important. And I get that managers/mgmt will never see eye to eye with developers about how long stuff takes. But this is just sheer idiocy, encouraging doing the bare minimum and a culture of fear instead of rewarding good work. If I actually told the next up the chain about it, they'd absolutely sweep it under the rug.
So yeah I'm interviewing looking to go somewhere way, way smaller at this point.
A week later I finished something early and was instructed to not bring anything else into the sprint because, you know, visibility is more important than actually being productive.
I get that deadlines and metrics are important. And I get that managers/mgmt will never see eye to eye with developers about how long stuff takes. But this is just sheer idiocy, encouraging doing the bare minimum and a culture of fear instead of rewarding good work. If I actually told the next up the chain about it, they'd absolutely sweep it under the rug.
So yeah I'm interviewing looking to go somewhere way, way smaller at this point.