That's literally their job, yes. Facilitating work. Anything that doesn't facilitate work directly or indirectly, is worthless time. Any and all interaction with production (therein devs) is worthless/negative unless it leads to improved output. My PMs are awesome. They never get in your way unless it's important, and they handle any roadblocks as best they can. They facilitate work.
Well, basically yes. They are the "glue" that *should* offload most "non-technical" issues that come up during development. So that when say one of the servers goes down and someone needs to "do stuff" to make something about like ordering a new one. Or say some bull-... of an idea comes down from the "higher-ups" and someone needs to sit down and talk with them. Or control the "pacing" of the development(so that recoloring a button doesn't take a week or so that a technically chalenging but ultimitale unimportant issue doesn't get more attention than a simple but imoortant one - all that jazz). In a good and ideal enviroment that "glue" is nigh impossible to spot and only used where necessary, but alas like always with glue it gets everywhere and everything is a mess that is barely held together.
A little tip all of the As in katana are pronounced the same way (Ka-Ta-Na). In Japanese the a only makes the ahh sound. It hurts a little hearing it pronounced (Ka-tan-a). I don’t know if it was said that way on purpose for the joke or not.
As a PM, I am totes in LOVE with SCRUM! If I could play with SCRUM all day, I would. Sometimes its hard to get others to SCRUM but there are tools that make it easier. People may noy like the taste of SCRUM but it gets work done. The only reason I exist is SCRUM. One time I hot wasted and had two PM's run a SCRUM session on me.
Agile is so good in it's simple, original form. Not that whole BS industry that came from it. If you leave out all the bloatware and hot air people (like Cindy) it's just doing a step at a time, improving on the way. Like building Legos
I had no idea that "agile scrum blackbelt certificates" are actually a thing. I thought they were entirely made up for the Jared-o-verse. Fortunately, I now know better, and if I ever encounter one in the wild, there'll be one less by the time I'm done.
One day she'll have her Scrum FFVII-Cloud-Sized-Sword Certificate and they'll have so many stand ups that they won't need chairs...and negative productivity!
CompSci ? nah, it's just regular Dilbert. Front/Back dev is part of hundreds of middle to large corps that run online sites. Dilbert's old job was likely sent off to Asia in the 90s where the manufacturing and engineering is cheaper.
End of day standups are awful. You're working on stuff outside of the 6 meetings scheduled and have to stop what you are doing. It's easy to work over one day to complete a big task when no one is bothering you, but when you interrupt the stream of work, it is really hard to task switch and find motivation at the end of the day to finish. This ends up killing most productivity for more complex things.
Personally not a fan of stand ups. 😅 Sit-downs are perfectly fine. Maybe once or twice a week depending on the complexity, how many people are involdved and the overall timeframe.
Jesus the more I watch these the more I think all software devs in at least the US should form a coalition together. Companies don't deserve to have them and basically just torture them, and also they don't understand how to treat developing and struggling software devs correctly. I sturggled , gor fired here i am unemployed depressed and on the verge of who knows what for 10 months. Wht tf am i supposed to do when your expected to advance to senior dev or whatever TF. Might as well just KMS at this point.
