rayfrankenstein/AITOW on Hacker News

I maintain a compendium of developers' best negative comments about agile https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README.... Here's what I've learned from maintaing this compendium about why Lean manufacturing doesn't…

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2025-05-10 · in What got lost in translation from Lean Manufacturing into Agile?

…of 100's of the best developer comments about agile. Check it out and make your own conclusions. https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2025-03-20 · in Ask HN: Had you ever found Agile (a.k.a. SCRUM) to work?

…sure why all these "methodologies" need to exist. This Githug page sums up my opinions quite well: https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW

comment by hirvi74 · 2025-02-13 · in How Agile Are You Really?

Appears to be a blogspam version of the source it mostly quotes from: https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW

comment by xnorswap · 2024-08-15 · in Can You Hear the Pain?

…a few experienced developers contributed their opinions on why found agile so problem. Check it out https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README.... Agile has fundamental structural problems which, combined with office…

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2023-09-02 · in Ask HN: Agile methodology is great but bad reputation due to inexperienced devs?

…a compilation of hundreds of social media comments explaining why agile/scrum is so problematic https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2023-08-31 · in Scrum: Failure by Design?

From “Agile In Their Own Words”, https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README.... “One aspect of agile, and of SCRUM in particular, is that the team is expected to 'forecast' which stories it will 'burn down' for a sprint.…

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2023-08-28 · in Scrum is a cancer

Testimony from dozens upon dozens of developers that think that scrum is useless, toxic bullshit: https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2023-08-28 · in Scrum is a cancer

And here is a list of every rebuttal you could give them: https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2023-08-28 · in Ask HN: Do we need to revisit Agile/Scrum?

What developers really think about Agile https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2023-08-16 · in Using Agile for more than software development

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Negative developer comments about Agile and Scrum on social media

story by RayFrankenstein · 2023-08-14 · 85 comments

…will actually say about agile and scrum when their managers and scrum masters are out of earshot: https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2023-08-14 · in Ask HN: Do developers have positive experiences with Scrum?

…been saying these things about scrum. Even senior people have a problem with it. See for yourself. https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README.... Also, search twitter with the hashtag #AgileKillsKittens

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2022-07-17 · in Ask HN: Need advice from veteran software developers

Ah, one of the original 17 Snowbird Nazgûl Read this: https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2022-07-02 · in Ask HN: Does the Scrum Framework Work?

Three years of the best anti-agile social media comments. https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2022-06-11 · in How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum

“Agile In Their Own Words”. A collection of negative social media comments regarding Agile. https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2022-05-10 · in Agile and the long crisis of software

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Speaking out against Agile and Scrum

story by RayFrankenstein · 2022-03-22 · 1 comment

Someone on the Internet summed it up well https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

comment by postfacto · 2021-12-16 · in Ask HN: Does agile stifle our best ideas?

…agree with me on this. More and more people every day are discovering the real truth about scrum. https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2021-09-30 · in Ask HN: Do you think Scrum is a sham?

Agile In Their Own Words https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW

comment by RayFrankenstein · 2021-09-27 · in How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum

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Agile in Their Own Words: The Problem with Agile and Scrum

story by imhoguy · 2021-08-31 · 1 comment

Apparently you’re in good company https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

comment by postfacto · 2021-08-28 · in Mental health impacts of a big tech job

Agile In Their Own Words https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

comment by postfacto · 2020-04-25 · in Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die