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0 pointshirvi743y ago0 comments

> if they were ever aware of it

This is my biggest pet-peeve on my current project. I am a solo dev on my current project at work, and for some reason, we are still choosing to use agile/scrum with sprints and all that jazz (seriously, your guess as to why is good as mine).

Regardless, one of the more difficult issues I have encountered through out my current project is the usage of proper abstraction and avoiding redundency. I seriously have little idea of anything I build will for the project will ever be used again in a different part. Since, everything is given to me in sprints, I literally have no idea what is coming down the pipes.

Any feature I implement becomes an internal debate of how much abstraction is necessary vs. YAGNI.

I've since given up on even trying. Once the project is more or less finished, I'll properly just run back through it and then properly abstract, refactor, etc.. You know -- spend more time doing something twice than properly the first time, but whatever.

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DougBTX3y ago

> Since, everything is given to me in sprints, I literally have no idea what is coming down the pipes.

So you literally don’t know what the end goal of your project is? I would say then definitely not a “self organised” team, or in a sense, you’re not in the team?

hirvi74OP3y ago

> So you literally don’t know what the end goal of your project is?

I know the end goal of the project in a general sense (like any other CRUD app), but I do not know what is takes to get to the end nor when the project will be considered finished. I'm also the solo dev, and I've been working on this for almost a year now. I'm so stressed and burned out because of this bastardized process (not real agile, but my org's "agile"). I know the only way things will get better is to find a new job, but I seriously cannot muster up the willpower to improve my situation.

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