Office etiquette in Canada particularly Vancouver
#61
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"The best practice is for us to spend some time and review these in details from the solutioning point of view .."
was a brilliant suggestion this afternoon. Someone truly did reply "NS,S".
was a brilliant suggestion this afternoon. Someone truly did reply "NS,S".
#62
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#64
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When you emigrate, you should expect things to be different. You should rejoice in that !
#65
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Here's the managerial bullshit of the morning"Self-organizing teams remove a lot of administrative tasks from managers and directors"
and blame!
#66
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Re: Office etiquette in Canada particularly Vancouver
does anyone else have the pleasure of agile product development methodologies?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_...re_developmentAgile software development comprises various approaches to software development under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customer(s)/end user(s).[1] It advocates adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, and continual improvement, and it encourages rapid and flexible response to change.[2][further explanation needed]
The term agile (sometimes written Agile)[3] was popularized, in this context, by the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.[4] The values and principles espoused in this manifesto were derived from and underpin a broad range of software development frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban.[5][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_...re_developmentAgile software development comprises various approaches to software development under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customer(s)/end user(s).[1] It advocates adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, and continual improvement, and it encourages rapid and flexible response to change.[2][further explanation needed]
The term agile (sometimes written Agile)[3] was popularized, in this context, by the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.[4] The values and principles espoused in this manifesto were derived from and underpin a broad range of software development frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban.[5][6]
#67
Re: Office etiquette in Canada particularly Vancouver
does anyone else have the pleasure of agile product development methodologies?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_...re_developmentAgile software development comprises various approaches to software development under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customer(s)/end user(s).[1] It advocates adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, and continual improvement, and it encourages rapid and flexible response to change.[2][[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify]further explanation needed]
The term agile (sometimes written Agile)[3] was popularized, in this context, by the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.[4] The values and principles espoused in this manifesto were derived from and underpin a broad range of software development frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban.[5][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_...re_developmentAgile software development comprises various approaches to software development under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customer(s)/end user(s).[1] It advocates adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, and continual improvement, and it encourages rapid and flexible response to change.[2][[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify]further explanation needed]
The term agile (sometimes written Agile)[3] was popularized, in this context, by the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.[4] The values and principles espoused in this manifesto were derived from and underpin a broad range of software development frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban.[5][6]
Why yes, though AgileSpank has rather replaced Legacy Agile. I get rather a kick out of Agile and the impossibility of achieving anything in an Agile workplace (not that one is expected to achieve anything except Agile compliance).
For example, it's common to have to attend three or four half-hour scrums a day which cuts down the time available for work considerably. The more fanatical scrum masters insist that people who are working remotely turn their cameras on so they can see that the attendees really are standing up. I know someone who is faced with the puzzle of three concurrent scrums. Obviously the only way to do that is to be remote to all of them but what if one or two are of the "must stand up" variety, does one pogo?
Agile is as bureaucratic and procedural as an Indian railway so not only will the policy on pogoing be documented somewhere but there will be a million posts on threads discussing the degree of hopping required.
#68
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Re: Office etiquette in Canada particularly Vancouver
as mostly a 'customer' of Agile, I am regularly regaled with tales of completed PIs, sprints and scrums when I am really only interested in understanding when the blessed thing is going to be finished and working as requested.
#69
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It will be ready whenever the workers are freed of the chains of Agile.
#70
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We have weekly office meetings that usually take up a couple of hours, but I don't have to attend; they just let me work.
#71
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Perhaps all this office gobbledy gook is the reason behind some observations of a flat office atmosphere... nobody understands what anyone else is going to say. A simple "good morning" could end up lasting 5 minutes.
#72
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Most of us never went to them, and managers genuinely seem perplexed, sorry you 9-5 managers don't understand reality....ha ha
#73
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Do government organisations in Canada have a 'mission statement'? Oh how I remember the days and days spent on those bloody things, full of meetings (sorry, input sessions), 'brainstorming', and every meaningless buzz word known to man, woman and probably the bloody dog as well. At the end would be a lovely glossy booklet that meant nothing, did nothing, and was read by no one. My 'input' one day was to have a mission statement that said we wouldn't have any more mission statements. The CEO didn't talk to me for weeks.
#74
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Re: Office etiquette in Canada particularly Vancouver
Do government organisations in Canada have a 'mission statement'? Oh how I remember the days and days spent on those bloody things, full of meetings (sorry, input sessions), 'brainstorming', and every meaningless buzz word known to man, woman and probably the bloody dog as well. At the end would be a lovely glossy booklet that meant nothing, did nothing, and was read by no one. My 'input' one day was to have a mission statement that said we wouldn't have any more mission statements. The CEO didn't talk to me for weeks.
I never had to deal with anyone beyond local middle managers, executives don't funnel down to the workplaces I have been in, they avoid meeting front line workers it often seems. One retailer I worked at in the US, they had a mock store at HQ so executives could do their PR without having to actually ever go to a real store.
At the airline I did see the CEO a few times when he was flying, but never met him, he didn't like employees speaking to him and we were always advised to not make contact if we saw him.
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