Man, this is the thing that really gets me about agile software development. Finish all the work in the sprint? Good job, pick up more work from the backlog and we’ll give you an even bigger sprint next time. Falling behind? Mandatory overtime and a disappointed manager.
End result of it all is that you’re encouraged to do lazy work and pad out your time so that you don’t get assigned increasingly immense workloads and get burnt out. For a job where quality should be measured by how well a job was done, it’s instead measured by how much work was done - and that’s a huge problem.
Man, this is the thing that really gets me about agile software development. Finish all the work in the sprint? Good job, pick up more work from the backlog and we’ll give you an even bigger sprint next time. Falling behind? Mandatory overtime and a disappointed manager.
End result of it all is that you’re encouraged to do lazy work and pad out your time so that you don’t get assigned increasingly immense workloads and get burnt out. For a job where quality should be measured by how well a job was done, it’s instead measured by how much work was done - and that’s a huge problem.