Running waterfall on a two week cadence burns out engineers by forbidding them from doing any work with a timeline greater than one week.
After all, half a week is burned, minimum, at the beginning and end of the sprint on process paperwork and screaming at disconnected Zoom windows.
Next sprint, their week of work is frequently reverted or irreparably hacked to meet an arbitrary deadline.
Also, the product sucks, but management metrics ensure people that focus on shuffling the titanic deck chairs instead of fixing it get promoted.
If a group of engineers puts in a heroic two month effort to save the project, their metrics tank, and they end up reporting to the first group until their options run out or they are laid off.
Metrics. The way the MBAs will throw the world (further) into a meat grinder.
My wife is a teacher and she was telling me that a panel who was responsible for hiring a new permanent teacher was "not allowed" to consider their prior knowledge of the applicants' teaching abilities, and had to go with the teacher who best answered the Department of Education's paperwork questions.
They chose (against their personal better judgement) the worse of the two teachers because "on paper" they appeared better.
I'm currently struggling to find a job (my current contract ends in a couple of weeks), and I just don't have the ability to be the level of ass-kiss dishonest, straight-laced, official textbook answers that seem to be what lands the fish. I'll get something eventually, and that's all I want, but it really feels like the world is tuned to the sizzle even when you can smell that the steak is rotting.
After all, half a week is burned, minimum, at the beginning and end of the sprint on process paperwork and screaming at disconnected Zoom windows.
Next sprint, their week of work is frequently reverted or irreparably hacked to meet an arbitrary deadline.
Also, the product sucks, but management metrics ensure people that focus on shuffling the titanic deck chairs instead of fixing it get promoted.
If a group of engineers puts in a heroic two month effort to save the project, their metrics tank, and they end up reporting to the first group until their options run out or they are laid off.