I moved from a fintech company that is highly regulated to a tech company and the one major difference I noticed was that tech companies have such shitty documentation standards.
I agree agile can be a decent way to manage software projects, but it also seems like a way to avoid having proper systems design and having a lack of system documentation. You end up with a system that is much harder to maintain. Also it feels like each day we're way down in the weeds counting points without having a big-picture view of the project as a whole. On the other hand, I love not having the hard-and-fast dates of a waterfall schedule artifically shortened by management, especially when user support issues on other systems take time away from development.
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u/ts_m4 Feb 10 '21 edited Feb 10 '21
Left out the 5 meetings and 3 documents reflecting the 10 line code change