One big point which hasn't been resolved by scrum in many companies. Manual testing - until it's tested by the QA tested you shouldn't mark it done. However, it is very seldom to finish testing and implementing in one take in exactly 2 weeks. Also business analysts, together with QA testers there is virtually no control in most companies what they do and how they do. All the blame is shifted always on developers because they are at the bottom of SDLC chain but business analysts and QA testers take never responsibility for all inaccuracies and omissions of their work.
My observations are than "agility" in most corporations mean "agile" approach to requirements, hard fixed approach to deadlines and environment or sdlc. Once I got blamed from system admins that I am late and they have extra work because client asked for change few hours before the release deadline. I implemented this but I got blamed for being late. Also in SCRUM the zealous approach to the holy 2 weeks, it cannot last 13 days, nor 15 days. It's super important to last exactly 14 days. In holy ticketing environment where you have to issue a ticket to wipe glasses. In my opinion the best and simplest methodology is an incremental waterfall with releases every 3 months ( more or less ). 3 month long "milestones" because every company does quarter reports. Additionally for status reporting Kanban boards. No damn red tape driven "agile" Scrums, safs and so on.
I worked once for an investment bank and there it was mandatory to take once in year min 2 week vacation minimum. It wasn't because of their sympathy, it was due to the fraud prevention :-) Forced 2 week long vacation, locked out access to the systems for that period of time.
> it was mandatory to take once in year min 2 week vacation minimum
That’s actually the law in some countries. It’s not really enforced much, but the idea is that you have a weapon to sue your company if they prevent you from taking 2 weeks off once a year.
Frauds are very often hidden or disguised as "bad investments" (yeah banks do mistakes as any other human beings) and covered with money from "slush funds". When they are on vacations, rogue traders cannot cover their intentional bad investments, losses, close warning notifications and so on. More kn this topic here https://www.fdic.gov/news/financial-institution-letters/1995...
Two reasons: lots of fraud requires continual maintenance, and when you're away someone will presumably take over your duties and might notice what you're doing.
That's the convenient myth to think banks caused crisis. Money printing and credit rates lowering by government caused this. Free money? Sure, why not. Please watch princes of yen documentary where they speak about "credit window guidance" conducted by Japanese national bank for more than decades
I don't deny frauds in credit agencies. However, somebody was buying banks' CDOs? Who, ancient aliens? No, they weren't called surprime because credit agencies cheated on their rating, they were called so because they were inherently risky more than a normal mortgage ( so called ninja loans, no income, no job ). That's the people were buying this shit with the all time low rate loans. Human greed huh? That's less convenient than blaming banks for all the evil in this world
Wikipedia has book citations, and more and better book citations than traditional encyclopedias.
It's unclear what your point is. Are you suggesting wikipedia shouldn't also have citations to content published online, simply because it might be removed?
Most wikipedia citations are linked to some news articles (this is not too bad, still newspapers are being archived) and some random internet blog articles of some random people which show up and disappear. Source creditworthness analysis? Good joke Wikipedia says :-) At best you can get some people's opinion about something.
And this is cherry picking. As studies show the quality varies strongly for historical, politically controversial and highly scientifical topics ( only few wikipedia editors ). Link https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3178876.3186132#BibP... So nothing "easily disproven"
Nope with an exception for CS academic theory. One year for CS is like a decade for human life and thus almost every IT book gets obsolete after a relase. That's why I read official docs or getting started, they are far more accurate and up to date. In rare occasions where doc is not too good, I check source code - it never lies.
The biggest spam I get from Facebook ads itself. I live in Switzerland and I am BOMBARDED with financial frauds, scams and ponzi like schemes served directly from their ads. I checked why in their system and got answer "primary location: Switzerland and male 25 - 35 years old". I tried to report, block them all but facebook support always if replied at all, it was saying all in line with their policies. So, I deactivated facebook account and now using only messanger
Surely, nobody in Dachau knew what what have been happening in one of the very first nearby concentration camp on the daily basis. It originated few years before the second world war. Buchenwald, matthausen, gross rosen ( typical work camp but not less lethal than the concentration camp - it was German before 2 world War), all German, on the German soil constructed by the German people
