It's a great process for reigning in "great" engineers that produce a ton of technical debt. It's a fantastic approach for making your engineering team more stable and product delivery more predictable.
> It's a great process for reigning in "great" engineers that produce a ton of technical debt
So any positives can safely be attributed to the new process and any negatives are clearly just the new process shining a light on existing problems.
Gotcha.
And the parent poster was wondering why people were so cynical.
> making your engineering team more stable
Can you expand upon what you mean by more stable?
One of the main selling points to management is it becomes much easier to switch developers between teams.
> product delivery more predictable.
In what sense? And through what mechanism?
It does reduce risk on short term deliverables but that's a very narrow interpretation of predictable.
It's certainly not the case as an external customer - trying to nail down an xp team to a fixed deadline more than a few weeks away is an exercise in frustration.
