One thing I learned on the job/internship that my bootcamp did not accurately teach us was to navigate ceremonies.
My first(and so far only) gig was in an agile team that had sprints that were two weeks long as well as fortnightly releases. With those two week sprints;
we had a backlog-grooming session where we had to layout our following sprint's workload with a breakdown of tasks, how long to complete, etc..
we had a sprint-planning session where we were meant to fill our task-board with enough work for those two weeks and accurately estimate how much time we needed (which I always either under or over shot)
two daily stand-ups (one for our immediate team and one for the wider business)
A Show & Tell at the end of each sprint where we were to demonstrate to the business what we have worked on
A Sprint review where we evaluated our tasks and performance which usually ended up being a broken record of "here's all the wrong things the interns are doing"
They threw us in the deep end and expected the interns to just dive into Agile methodologies and ceremonies like we knew what we were doing.
I'm not sure if this knowledge was more our burden of responsibility, our bootcamp's, or that the company had higher expectations when they hired us. But either way it felt like being in front of a class naked nearly everyday.
Oh man that's a great point I didn't even think about!! Agile is almost religious for some people, and it's a badge of experience to know as many obscure acronyms as possible. Especially if you're an agile SCRUM master pivoting to hit OKR's with synergistic energies. (Let's talk about the burndown chart offline).
But for realz thanks for sharing Collin, these are the things that are easy to forget when you've been doing it for a while. Empathy for beginners evaporates when you don't remember how embarassed or lost you felt at the beginning. It's good to remember
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One thing I learned on the job/internship that my bootcamp did not accurately teach us was to navigate ceremonies.
My first(and so far only) gig was in an agile team that had sprints that were two weeks long as well as fortnightly releases. With those two week sprints;
They threw us in the deep end and expected the interns to just dive into Agile methodologies and ceremonies like we knew what we were doing.
I'm not sure if this knowledge was more our burden of responsibility, our bootcamp's, or that the company had higher expectations when they hired us. But either way it felt like being in front of a class naked nearly everyday.
Oh man that's a great point I didn't even think about!! Agile is almost religious for some people, and it's a badge of experience to know as many obscure acronyms as possible. Especially if you're an agile SCRUM master pivoting to hit OKR's with synergistic energies. (Let's talk about the burndown chart offline).
But for realz thanks for sharing Collin, these are the things that are easy to forget when you've been doing it for a while. Empathy for beginners evaporates when you don't remember how embarassed or lost you felt at the beginning. It's good to remember