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I wish IT was more like this. The agile (communist) manifesto that seems to treat all programmers as replaceable cogs (related buzz words: bus factor, knowledge
by nvarsj 10y ago
I wish IT was more like this. The agile (communist) manifesto that seems to treat all programmers as replaceable cogs (related buzz words: bus factor, knowledge transfer, pair programming), leads inevitably to really poor teams that can't engineer anything but the most dumbed down web application, where the best performers are artificially restricted. Fred Brooks' description of a surgical like team always seemed to me like a good approach, but I've yet to see it applied, at least not ad-hoc.
- nvarsj 10y agoI was probably a bit harsh here in retrospect comparing agile to communism ;-). I do feel agile culture though, or XP in particular, tends to to encourage a lowest-common denominator approach where individuals can't really shine.