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It was win-win

Either Miami loses or the SEC gets eliminated by the third place ACC team.

I'm rooting for whoever wins the other side of the bracket now. Either Oregon gets their first championship or perennial loser Indinia becomes an undefeated champion.

He was so good, one could tell from the limited time he played. The one thing I thought he was brilliant at was two fold. One, his patience waiting for the blocking to open a sliver of a hole for him to run through and two, knowing the exact time to burst through it. He was a smart RB, flashy as hell. I believe he would have lit this place on fire.

which is all insane as a scrum master should just be a team member than spends a small portion of time on facilitating the process and most of their time doing technical work, but ive seen projects where product owners were just the managers of scrum masters who had zero technical background and just all sit in jira all day and wonder why things are late

For those of you wondering, here is the current VT All-Name Team:

Warren Maccaroni
Dick Goode
Gene Breen
Billy Babb
Aster Sizemore
Nubian Peak
Rich Fox
Sterling Wingo
George George
Buzz Nutter (a first ballot All-Name Hall of Famer)

Marshall P Nathan Totten would have been a worthy addition.

I saw 19 new comments and thought what could possibly drive this much activity about old news of one of our illustrious LB's leaving and soon realized there is enough propeller heads spinning, if harnessed, could light up NYC for a minute.

A lot of the waterfall i have seen doesn't like Jenkins and won't integrate when software is done because thats not the schedule, which is stupid and not dictated by waterfall, but place do hate in Jenkins and ticketing systems and other basic things that make life easier

Let this sink in:
Miami from the ACC has had 3 OOC P4 wins in this year's CFP. The 5 $ec teams in this year's CFP have combined for 0 OOC P4 wins.

Sorry I was not clear l, "how messed up software dev industry was getting by using "agile""

well yeah ND will make the more money than not ND, they arent stupid, but this is Bama money

Sorry, but I can't pull for the Big 10, either.

I get why management would want that, but "it's not agile" to dictate what productivity software to use.

Sounds to me like leadership failed in their responsibility to set any kind of standards and are now struggling to reign it back under control. And it sounds like they really didn't think of how opening the door wide to everyone would make it incredibly difficult down the line to have the systems be scalable and testable. And I bet you the leaders who shirked that responsibility are now blaming agile concepts for the root of the problems.

Thing is, the longer they wait the more difficult it will be to get everyone aligned again.

I could be wrong, but i read tMB's comment the same way I read "you hate to see it." With a heavy dose of /sssss

One problem with this that we're struggling with right now is that we have many agile/scrum teams, and they're each using their preferred tools for developing/testing/whatever. Which is fine, I guess, but we're working on a big push for increasing our test automation, and anticipate pushback from the teams when we bring up the idea of standardizing test automation frameworks. I get why management would want that, but "it's not agile" to dictate what productivity software to use. And I'm one of the ones in the middle just wanting us to increase our usage of test automation.

/shrug

understand that software tools are software tools and should be used no matter what method you are using.

If you were in a spot where you were being told not just what to do but how to do it, you weren't in agile, you were very much waterfall. Agile is supposed to be leadership (business, product, operations, all represented by the Product Owner within the team) giving the roadmap on what needs to be done with the team itself given the leeway to determine how best it should be accomplished, with engineering/development leads and managers setting guidelines on the tools that the teams can use (to prevent fragmentation of technologies) and ensuring the teams have the skills to accomplish it, with the SM supposed to be there to make sure that all remains running well and figuring out how to address and fix it when it isn't.

What so make companies have done is just implement the meetings of agile without any of the behavioral changes necessary to make it work leaving a hellscape of micromanaged crap that bogs down time and has useless roles like SMs doing nothing but being layoff fodder for when that time comes.

And the one they did beat was a founding member of the SEC

For right now we'll put it on the parking lot and circle back to it. Just too many pinches to work through to obtain blue sky at the moment...

Ehh, agile isn't the industry but it is so engrained in software development that a lot of people just bundle the two together.

Agile Delivery Lead is another name companies have pivoted toward as well as Release Train Engineer, for scaled agile implementations. Do largely the same as what SMs used to do just under a name and title that is more technical than what SMs are now.

The kicker is, there are some companies out there that are so clueless that they will have a role as SM that is basically getting into department head roles with salaries to match. The name Scrum Master has lost all meaning

Pivot to being a program manager if she likes process, or product if she wants to remain close to dev teams. Or go be a project manager for an implementations team. Scrum Masters are worthless in modern software development; they are glorified secretaries.

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