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Agile process can spur micromanagement and poorly maintained code, says ex-Google software engineer • DEVCLASS[^]

Article that is commenting on a book which reflects on Agile.

"Estimates of how long work will take become deadlines and engineers feel untrusted, scrutinized, and negatively criticized when things do not go well."

I have definitely seen that happen. It has gotten so when I see poor Epics/Stories or many fuzzy bugs I just claim it will take 6 months. If they insist on a better 'estimate' then I state it will take time and research to refine it.

"Feature flags, a way of enabling and disabling features, may be introduced to improve reliability, but “too many flags mean there are too many combinations,” Guler writes, so that proper testing is difficult."

Proper testing? If that was the only problem it would be great.

I have seen a case where the 'feature' flag was so old no one even knew what it was for. Even looking at the code did not make it clear.
In many other cases if documentation existed it was so minimal that it was hard to tell what it was for or even how to use it.
Then of course there was the problem that when a new feature flag was turned on any and every problem after that was blamed on the flag. Even when it was obvious that it could not have an impact.

"Pair programming, where two developers sit together and work on the same code, is a “brand of torture” and “highly distracting,” "

I always figured it was just a certain way to significantly reduce my productivity. But that description fits well.

However what the article doesn't mention is that there is nothing better.
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