We Follow Agile Principles

The eternal battle between Agile and Waterfall methodologies played out through a Friends scene. Two project managers trying to one-up each other — she's spelling out "SCRUM" letter by letter while he's just waiting for his punchline: "WATERFALL WITH POKER." That smug smile at the end is every old-school PM who's seen methodologies come and go but still uses their trusty Gantt chart in secret. It's the software development equivalent of "I was doing this before it was cool" but with twice the meetings.

Startup life in a nutshell! While corporate devs get neatly defined roles, joining a startup means you're simultaneously the backend architect, frontend designer, DevOps wizard, QA department, and the person who fixes the coffee machine. The "Yes" response is just the beginning - by month three you've built a microservice architecture single-handedly while also managing investor relations and ordering office snacks. The "23 personalities" isn't a disorder, it's your actual job description!

Ah, the classic "too many cooks" scenario but with programmers! The left shows a beautifully simple, straight railway track representing your solo coding journey—clean, predictable, and headed in one clear direction. Then management decides that "adding more programmers will speed things up," and suddenly your elegant project transforms into that chaotic railway junction on the right—a tangled mess of conflicting ideas, merge conflicts, and "but on MY machine it works perfectly." It's the software development equivalent of trying to make a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. Some problems just don't scale linearly with headcount, and codebases are notoriously allergic to sudden influxes of new contributors who each bring their own "brilliant" ideas to the table.

The ultimate dependency injection: a cat strategically positioned between you and your keyboard. Your sprint board says "blocked by furry obstacle" but you don't have the heart to create a ticket for cat removal. The cat has implemented the most effective CI/CD pipeline blocker known to developers - the Cute Interface/Coding Disruption pattern. Management keeps asking for status updates while you're busy calculating how many story points to assign to "petting the stakeholder."

The classic senior developer paradox: your anxiety-fueled coding marathon just created two weeks of unemployment for your junior devs. Congratulations, you played yourself! That moment when your productivity is actually counterproductive for team dynamics. Now you're just sitting there with your face in your palm wondering if you should create some bugs on purpose just to keep everyone busy. Success has never felt so painful. Next time maybe save some debugging for the children instead of hoarding all the glory for yourself, you anxious overachiever.

The classic interview trap: "Can you work under pressure?" Sure, you say with a smile, blissfully unaware of the apocalyptic codebase awaiting you. Fast-forward three months and you're a shell of your former self, surviving on caffeine and Stack Overflow prayers, debugging legacy code written by someone who clearly hated humanity. The transformation from optimistic candidate to battle-scarred veteran is complete. Your IDE has seen things no debugger should ever witness.