What are you up to these days my friend? Ping me on Whatsapp.

Judging is a hard word. Good question though. Specifically in Agile - what we do - we are change agents and need to see the industry and how things are done here and there before we can be realistically considered "any good" at our jobs. This is where we probably can "judge" someone who is presenting themselves as an "Agilist", yet they've been at the same job/company for 10+ years. I guess the angle of "Agile jobs" got lost somewhere there in the context, as it's important.

Same with me too

It's a great question and no, I don't think it's a "blanket recommendation" that accurately applies to all demographic, etc. I do believe that in what we - Agile transformation people - do, 3-5 years is probably the absolute maximum one should stay if they don't want to become stale or detached from the market and other pools of activity, outside of their comfort zone.

Hey, thanks for stopping by and for your feedback. Yes, social validation takes over the perception of content these days as "views are everything" (lol). No Sprint Zero is obviously a very purist approach, but that's the angle of what I'm trying to explain here. When setting up your project or body of work, break down your features into smaller chunks that your backlog will fill up with - Stories and Tasks - and plan with your team in such a way where the very first Sprint is seen as "useful", delivering something. IF you can, obviously. We don't operate in the vacuum of clean classrooms, which is why sometimes prep phases are required before we can start properly sprinting. I'm still a fan of seeing Sprint 1 as your first Sprint, not some excuse in the form of a "Sprint Zero". I hope this makes sense and helps you a bit.

@@JoinAgile (I actually decided after further researching, that since I'm starting off this particular project alone, kanban makes more sense!) But yeah- I'm definitely converted re: scrum sprint one. I think I ended up on KZbin researching sprint 0 because I never really got why installing your IDE was on the Jira board anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hope all is good with you mate!

Thanks Abhishek, and great insight mate. If all the employers want is to hire cheap young talent and then shape them into whatever they want, that would definitely create very specific job market that's less keen to pay for externally obtained expertise over the years - including Agile. Must be tough for experienced professionals looking to change jobs... At the same time I agree that it could be an opportunity for people like yourself interested in Agile and probably having experience being then ready to respond to the local market demand when that inevitable need to hire "experts" arises as the companies realise that they can't just keep boiling on the inside without the influx of external knowledge.