Sprint planning is a ritual in which the team gathers, opens the backlog, and then — collectively, in real time, as a group of grown adults — pretends to be surprised by tickets that have been sitting there, untouched, screaming, for nine consecutive sprints. 'Oh, this one,' they say. 'I forgot about this one.' You did not forget. None of us forgot. We were hoping it would die.
Scope Creep.
Project management jokes, explained at length, with the kind of mounting incredulity normally reserved for municipal sewer scandals.
30 bits in tonight's monologue