Tech Job 9 to 9 by Dilshad Mustafa

Author:Dilshad Mustafa
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Dilshad Mustafa
Published: 2014-06-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“Ashutosh, can you tell us how this Agile method works? What kind of challenges you faced before?” asked Vinay.

Ashutosh started explaining Agile methodology in detail to Vinay and Himesh

“In Agile, a Sprint consists of a set of tasks. Each Sprint is for three to four weeks. Stories are tasks assigned to each person. Each Story has to be completed within the specified time.

As a person starts work on a Story, he gets to know more specific details of the tasks which are not known at the time of effort estimation. This amounts to additional work. But the catch is you have to finish the work within the specified end date. So you stretch and work extra time every day or work on Saturdays and Sundays, it’s up to you,” explained Ashutosh.

“What did you do when you are faced with tight timelines that you could not meet?” asked Vinay.

“If you find additional work is involved and you cannot complete within the end date, just discard those hidden requirements and the additional work,” said Ashutosh.

“What do you mean? Discard that additional work because you could not meet the end date?” said Himesh.

“Why bother? Why try hard and explain? It’s a pain to explain every detail of the additional work involved and how much more effort it will take to someone who will turn only a deaf ear to you. And the next day they will ask you the same questions, pretend they didn’t understand. They will even say that you have to plan and work efficiently to meet the end date and not ask for extra time. They will pass snide comments like you have to grow up.

They will make it as a big fuss. They, the higher up will talk like why additional effort needed, it should be completed within estimated effort. They will talk like you are not working and sitting tight. That will be the indirect comments on you. They won’t directly tell in your face. It will come through Raghu and Murali.

No matter what work you do, they will make you feel bad. If your work gets blocked and you are unable to proceed or if your work gets delayed because of somebody’s fault, they will make it look like you are responsible for that. No matter how much work you do, they will make it look like you are not working. They will pass lewd comments and say ‘you didn’t follow up, you didn’t ask, you didn’t check…you didn’t work with proper planning.’

You get the message right. You know what I mean. You have to read between the lines. They expect you to do the work of two to three people. That is possible if you work at least eighteen hours a day. But they will pay you for nine hours only.

They will not accept or consider your additional work. Your additional hours of work will not reflect in the actual efforts of the tasks in the Agile portal. If you took more than nine hours

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