I disagree that federal politics shouldn’t regulate anything non-commercial. I would argue that its primary purpose should be to enshrined minimal standards for, among other things, things like civil liberties. Part of establishing and protecting civil libierties means regulating discrimination and disenfranchisement to AT LEAST a baseline of equality across every state.
I have an LG smart tv that I’ve had for a few years now. It is easily the worst TV I’ve ever bought. The interface sucks, the remote sucks, it doesn’t have the Dropout app, it is bright as the sun when the screen is on in the dark even with adaptive brightness on, slow to register button presses and load apps, etc. Even if it weren’t a privacy nightmare, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
That’s how we getcha!
Story points are such entire bullshit.
How do you measure “effort”? What is a unit of effort? How do I know whether a task is a 2 or a 3 efforts? What is the actual difference there? “It’s the complexity, the work load, and the risks and uncertainties”. Ok… but are those things truly measurable? Are they equally weighted? What complexity takes it from a 2 to a 3? Are we just going off of vibes here? Does a 2 to me mean the same thing as a 3 to you?
Why would effort scale with a fibonacci scale? How can non subject matter experts estimate effort on a task they aren’t familiar with from a Jira Card Description? Do you measure effort of dev work and qa work? Or do you separate those things? If dev work is 3 story points and qa work is 3 story points, what is the combined effort on the fibonacci scale since there is no 6? Or is it just a 3 between them because the dev and qa work are assumed for all tickets?
But also, “It’s not about time, it’s about effort”. OK then why are we measuring velocity in story points per 2 week sprint. And we have a story point capacity per two week sprint. And we adjust that capacity directly against the number of days people are taking off this sprint. So it’s absolutely, positively, not a measure of the amount of time needed. But we do allot story points relative to manhours available.
sigh. I wonder if I’d rather just have bullshit deadlines then play another pointless game of planning poker with only half of my team barely participating and the scrum master trying to get enthusiastic consensus on a scale that is, at best, about how you feel about a task you are probably just learning about and don’t fully understand.