Split user stories ruthlessly and get value earlier
If I create my own company, I will try really hard not to hire people who adopted buzzwords like - scrum&#x2F;agile&#x2F;user story&#x2F;spike&#x2F;standup&#x2F;sprint etc.<p>These people tend to create bureaucratic nightmare, an environment which demotivate creative people and promote mediocre people, an environment where you get rewarded to look busy instead of actually get things done.<p>Please, do not point me at agile manifesto.<p>To me agile looks like <i>totalitarian sect</i> which constantly preaches <i>flexibility</i> and freedom while swiftly punishing anybody who ever dare to deviate from <i>strict</i> daily rituals and mantras.<p>Dry definitions in agile manifesto means nothing in real life. What&#x27;s actually important is a <i>context</i> which created by people who adopted it.<p>Agile&#x2F;scrum is biggest cargo cult I&#x27;ve ever seen in my life.