Getting steamed!
This happens quite often on a Friday night. It’s a cheap form of therapy 😉
Unfortunately though, it’s a required form of therapy. As anyone who has read the strips will have noticed, frustration at the lack of management engagement is a recurring theme in the comics. Before I used to be able to walk into an IT project and immediately judge their chances of success (vague/slim/none). These days, I can look at the managers involved in an agile initiative/transition and also judge the chances of success (glimmer of hope/vague/slim/none). Which makes one exceptionally sensitive to the bullshit that managers then spout about their agile transitions. My experience is that most managers aren’t leaders, they’re administrators. They are unwilling to take any risks that might end up hurting them or possibly even costing them their jobs. This is fair enough in most cases, as they have responsibilities outside of work and they probably weren’t hired for the job because they had a vision of where the company should go. But then they should stop spouting bullshit about their agile transformation and at least admit that they’re just covering their arses by saying that they tried agile, but it doesn’t work in their company. Which is true.