It makes me wonder why the Pentagon, with a US$1 trillion budget and being a critical piece of the US state apparatus, could not create a solution like that in recent years.
It's not only because of the schizophrenic process of estimating tasks' complexity (not time) to understand how many of them can be added to a two-week time window.
In teams that focus on points:
1. you spend time giving points to tasks in a meeting with the whole team
2. to calculate how many points can be added to a sprint based on the points given in the past, without any adjust for the cases where the points allocated to a task were wrong
3. to determine the group of tasks that will be assigned to each developer
4. to finally, discuss why the number of points assigned to a sprint was not fully delivered (it's rare to find sprints where the tasks are delivered earlier; Parkinson's law explains that)
It's unlikely that any stakeholder would prioritize a team's precise task estimation over the rapid delivery of features or projects.
In this sense, a kanban process will have the same outcome with much less energy spent, and small tasks will give you the same statistical value without spending hours estimating "complexity."
The Sisiphisean job of trying to assign the correct number of tasks to a sprint is only there to comfort team members who don't want to consider the actual value of the processes they use.
I live in the biggest city in Brazil, São Paulo. On one side, we have a significant number of deaths (8,2k in 36K of all country), but the local government was capable of building campaign hospitals and now we have near 80% of the occupation of hospital beds. So the situation is controlled, I can say.
But the mental toll to deal with this president is very high!
I thought a lot before posting here because this government has a lot of fanboys/fangirls that use war tactics to hide things. The first posts here were of people trying to show that things are ok and numbers are being publicized, what is a lie.
These same people will come back here to downvote any comment that exposes the real situation. They do this in news portals, social media, WhatsApp, etc. It is disgusting and tiring.
> It’s not like I’ve completely divorced myself of Java. I have written a significant amount of Java/Spring/Hibernate code in the last 3 years (...) I worked in the Solar Industry doing deeply soul-fulfilling things like writing database queries about kiloWatt-hours
It makes me wonder why the Pentagon, with a US$1 trillion budget and being a critical piece of the US state apparatus, could not create a solution like that in recent years.