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It seems to me that management is taught that a dependence on expensive experts, is a problem to be optimized. They want to manage the development process in a
by devrandomguy 9y ago
It seems to me that management is taught that a dependence on expensive experts, is a problem to be optimized. They want to manage the development process in a way that allows them to easily swap out one developer or team for another, or to ramp up production simply by increasing the number of developers assigned to a task.
It is almost as if they see the success that we have had in dev/ops with the "cattle, not pets" philosophy, and want to apply that in their own field. Making the subject behave consistently and predictably, whether it is a machine or a human professional, would be a prerequisite for that.
- ruleabidinguser 9y agoWill they succeed?
- devrandomguy 9y agoSure, as long as their users unanimously abide by a very large rulebook ;)
- penpapersw 9y agoI'd say they are "succeeding" in the sense that they continue to make money. Whether they're truly successful in the sense of providing proper value to their customers to justify that money, and treating their programmers right, is another story, and I've seen enough cases where they don't do either of these, while the executives make plenty of money to live comfortably for years by exploiting both customers and their own programmers.