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Why Scrum is stressing you out
Programming today is stressful — way more stressful than I remember it in the 90s and early 2000s when I was just starting out.
If you were to graph programmer stress levels over time in a traditional Waterfall approach versus a sprint-based Scrum model, it might look something like this: There ought to be some provision for brainstorming, investigating new methods, figuring out how to avoid doing some of the subtasks, reading, training, and just goofing off.— Peopleware, Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister Scrum seems to assume you can simply "bang it out" like assembling a piece of IKEA furniture—just pull the next instruction manual from the backlog and follow the steps.
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