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Do startups actually use agile/waterfall? (self.cscareerquestions)
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I've been working at my tech startup for almost a year now and it's been pretty smooth sailing. Everyone does their own thing. You take on a feature in Jira, create a PR, address the revisions, merge and that's done. There's not really a "manager" as we work as a team towards the same goal autonomously.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Consider yourself lucky. I’m French and all the companies, big or small, use Scrum with an awful Jira on top where managers can micro-manage everything.

[–] httpjames 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry about that man. Micromanaging is the worst. I hope you can get some better opportunities soon 🤞

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have because I quit. I got a big raise at the same time and more responsibilities.

I don’t believe scrum is evil though. It can be as good as lean/kanban. It’s mostly misused by managers and that’s why it got a bad name.

Jira can be acceptable too if you only use what you need, and forget all the metrics required by managers.