Siddharth Ashok

Front-end & WordPress developer. Open-source enthusiast.
Co-founder @grandworksco.
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[Siddharth Ashok @siddharthashok]

This #ValentinesDay I am talking on how to be a better designer at @WordCampIN ☺️.

Sharing my experience as a developer on working along with famous designers.

It will be fun quick session.

It’s a free event, do register 🔥

[WordCamp India 2021 (Online) @WordCampIN]

Speaker announcement: Siddharth Ashok (@siddharthashok) on "How to be a better designer (Specially as a developer)"
#WordCampIN #WordCamp #WordPress https://t.co/GEq67pU4yM

[GOA @goa]

🚨Are you a designer, developer, creator, builder or entrepreneur?🚨

If you're in Goa this Friday, please join us for our first in-person event of the year:

☀️Goa Web Folks Meetup!☀️
*Fri 5pm at Kowo Workspace Panjim*

https://t.co/fRCb4I9Jt3

See you!

[Siddharth Ashok @siddharthashok]

@0xSalilNaik @hampusolsson @DavidMcBacon Thanks! Hope you are doing great, lets connect some time :)

[Santiago @svpino]

Scrum is a cancer.

I've been writing software for 25 years, and nothing renders a software team useless like Scrum does.

Some anecdotes:

1. They tried to convince me that Poker is a planning tool, not a game.

2. If you want to be more efficient, you must add process, not remove it. They had us attending the "ceremonies," a fancy name for a buttload of meetings: stand-ups, groomings, planning, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums. We spent more time talking than doing.

3. We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention.

4. We spent more time estimating story points than writing software. Story points measure complexity, not time, but we had to decide how many story points fit in a sprint.

5. I had to use t-shirt sizes to estimate software.

6. We measured how much it cost to deliver one story point and then wrote contracts where clients paid for a package of "500 story points."

7. Management lost it when they found that 500 story points in one project weren't the same as 500 story points on another project. We had many meetings to fix this.

8. Imagine having a manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a tech lead. You had to answer to all of them and none simultaneously.

9. We paid people who told us whether we were "burning down points" fast enough. Weren't story points about complexity instead of time? Never mind.

I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile.

We brought professional Scrum trainers. We paid people from our team to get certified. We tried Scrum this way and that other way. We spent years doing it.

The result was always the same: It didn't work.

Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control.

But the best about Scrum are those who look you in the eye and tell you: "If it doesn't work for you, you are doing it wrong. Scrum is anything that works for your team."

Sure it is.

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[WPMU DEV @wpmudev]

This sparked the biggest debate our internal Slack channel has ever seen. 🤣

What's your answer?

[Anil kumar @Anilkumar01317]

Bhojpuri commentary is best addition to IPL 2023 😂

[Siddharth Ashok @siddharthashok]

@glebich 🙋🏾 @grandworksco

[Siddharth Ashok @siddharthashok]

"Be good do good and everything good will follow"

@ajitbohra @WordCampAsia #WCAsia

[Siddharth Ashok @siddharthashok]

@Fitehal @WordCampAsia See you soon!

[Siddharth Ashok @siddharthashok]

In Bangkok for @WordCampAsia, see you around :)

#WCAsia #WCASIA2023

[Siddharth Ashok @siddharthashok]

@WordCampAsia venue just a ferry ride away.

#WCASIA2023 #wcasia

[Rahul Bansal @rahul286]

If you are looking for @WordCampAsia #tickets, please visit https://t.co/vfLSJM6P4C to grab one. #wcasia

[Siddharth Ashok @siddharthashok]

Happy New Year! All the best to you, your friends and family!

[Dharmesh Ba @dharmeshba]

How much do Indians earn?

[Siddharth Ashok @siddharthashok]

@0xSalilNaik 👌🏼

[GrandWorks @grandworksco]

We're back for our monthly Meetups!

After a long break because of the COVID pandemic, let's reboot the WordPress Goa meetups.

16th September 2022 at Greyscale HQ, Dona Paula, Goa.

RSVP: https://t.co/PkZSfMcL5l

[Siddharth Ashok @siddharthashok]

@HardeepAsrani Totally agree!

[Ram Maurya @mauryaratan]

Hey folks 👋

I recently launched Stalkfish (@useStalkfish), a simplified site activity monitoring for #WordPress sites.

Oh, and it comes with a free plan!

Check it out at https://t.co/pnPhGdOkjE

RTs appreciated 🙏

[Siddharth Ashok @siddharthashok]

@HardeepAsrani 😂

[Siddharth Ashok @siddharthashok]

@sondesix Developed by third party. Same goes for the websites of “Apple Authorised Resellers”.