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I am sorry horrendously tired of product and business people. The incessance on "taking it offline" and scheduling yet more meetings so that everything is on a calendar is going to be the end of me. Apparently talking to each other like human beings is no longer acceptable, or maybe this is how they view "normal interactions", I don't know.
Most of my week are meetings discussing things that I don't just not care about, but that I have no insight or purview over. I do not care what another team two doors down is doing, nor do I care about their plans for the next quarter. The idea that technological staff need to know or care about these things is so deeply flawed that it's no wonder that nothing ever gets done. Not to mention the fact SCRUM is brought in to actively solidify and enforce this mindset.
Managers do not need detailed metrics of what every individual tech worker is doing during any given sprint, but they don't care. They want to feel like they are doing something, anything, and will make everyone else suffer to facilitate their own existance. If you cannot trust your own employees to work towards established business goals, you need new employees. It is that simple.
Product and business folks need to solidify what they want, so we as technology folks can build it to the best of our abilities. The separation between these two layers is extremely critical to achieve high quality software, and to forcibly merge these layers is to build the landscape we live in today. Of course tech workers still need active insights from the users of the software, and should use the software themselves, but that is not a product or business requirement. That is a feedback loop that allows us to build better software. These things just are not that hard, and yet people will do every single thing possible to make sure these simple baselines are not reached. Sometimes I wonder how these people can even drive cars without three meetings: One to determine the route, one to discuss the roles everybody in the car will take, and one to plan out future meetings such as a retrospective for when four people try to steer at the same time, and the car crashes.