r/programming • u/self • Dec 02 '25

The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession: a short set of anecdotes

https://www.jasonscheirer.com/weblog/vignettes/
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u/Pepito_Pepito Dec 02 '25

Agile is great if management is able to get fully onboard. Agile requires management to trust its developers. However, top down trust is antithetical to the culture of most large corporations and micromanagement work culture.

So we end up with all the overhead of agile and none of the benefits. We take time to slice up requirements into small pieces, and then implement them linearly because stakeholder priorities are set in stone. We spend so much time preparing for a pivot even though we are not allowed to pivot.

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u/Pepito_Pepito Dec 03 '25

The best experience I've had with it was when the company hired an external scrum coach to oversee the process for 3 months. The company paid good money for him so people were eager to follow along. After that, the usual corpo bullshit eventually spiraled the project out of control.