The Church of Agile
This is a website written in PHP by someone who doesn&#x27;t like how their scrum team is being run.<p>I&#x27;m going to assume that based on the tone of this site, the author is a very junior developer -- mostly because I think a mid-to-senior software engineer would be brutally embarrassed to publish and share something like this with a wider audience.<p>Everything there is to be said about agile has been said. Good teams adopt the right take on the process for them.  Teams with poor cohesion, who would likely struggle with or without project management, may have some cookie-cutter version of the process forced on them. This is usually a sign of a dysfunctional team -- not necessarily a dysfunctional process.<p>The author may actually be the bad apple derailing a process that works for the team as a whole. Look at all the complaints! Assuming it&#x27;s actually a team of seven, you&#x27;re talking about one seventh of the team probably visibly seething at every standup because they feel put upon by someone forcing a process on them. I imagine that&#x27;s a lot of tension for the other six people to bear.<p>Look, I&#x27;ve written plenty of things I&#x27;m embarrassed by -- particularly in the beginning of my career. Blog posts and the like are a great way to let off some steam about how unsatisfied you are with your job. But if you&#x27;re anything like me, you&#x27;re going to look back at stuff like this and regret how bad your attitude was.<p>My advice straight to the author: You probably spent more time writing this site than the amount of time you&#x27;ve actually lost to your daily standup. If you&#x27;re not happy with your job, then quit it.<p>But I&#x27;ve got to warn you: odds are you&#x27;re not going to be running the show at the next job either. I can tell from this site that you&#x27;re just really mad that people are telling you what to do. Answering to someone else is a part of literally any job. It&#x27;s a pretty fundamental part of participating in society.<p>You&#x27;re going to end up being just as miserable wherever you land if you don&#x27;t take a look in the mirror and invest some time into improving your attitude and focusing on positive, productive interactions with your co-workers.