I, for one, welcome the fact that agile/scrum/daily standup/etc. rituals will be outdated. While they might be somehow useful in some software development projects, in the past 10 years it turned out to be a cult of lunatics who want to apply it to any engineering work, not just software, and think any other approach than that will result in bad outcomes and less productivity. Can't wait for the "open office" BS to die next too, literally a boomer mindset that came from government offices back in the day, and they think it's more productive that way.

Very valid. In the beginning all this was driven by developers. Then it was LinkedIn-ified and suddenly we had to deal with agile coaches. Essentially people with no tech qualifications play with developers as guineapigs without understanding the why.

Same is true for UX and DevOps, just create a bunch of positions based on some blog post, and congratulate your self on a job well done. Screwing over the developer (engineers) as usual. Even though they actually might be interested in those jobs.

This is the main problem with big tech informing industry decisions, they win because they make sure they understand what all of this means. For all other companies this just creates a mess and your mentioned frustration.

No way, how will I develop without knowing what Bob the farter did yesterday?

> Can't wait for the "open office" BS to die next too, literally a boomer mindset that came from government offices back in the day, and they think it's more productive that way.

Open office is the densest and cheapest office layout. That is the reason it exists and the reason it will persist. All other reasons are inferior.