The in-house coach pushed back mightily against hiring an engineer with a QA background with pretty much the exact same reasoning. The testing would be done in

The in-house coach pushed back mightily against hiring an engineer with a QA background with pretty much the exact same reasoning. The testing would be done in the sprint by the team, so there was no reason to proceed with the hire. The reality of the production code clearly showed a different reality, but the attempts at persuasion were made anyway. I observed one of the Manifesto signatories for the first time last night. Superb presentation skills, I'll give them that. I'm more of a Taoist than a Confucian (and a sysadmin to boot) in this sense: The system which can be defined is not the true system.