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It's the burgerization of software development, where every engineer can be turned into a generic fungible burger-flipping engineering unit, and the output meas
by jfim 7y ago
It's the burgerization of software development, where every engineer can be turned into a generic fungible burger-flipping engineering unit, and the output measured in the number of burgers flipped.
The software architecture is falling apart, the tech debt overshadows the actual debt of a small country, our subject matter expert quit the company over being micromanaged, and the clients are abandoning our buggy software for our competitors? What went wrong, we closed all of those JIRA tickets, surely that must be good for something.
- meheleventyone 7y agoTicket driven development isn't just an agile issue though. Project management has always loved granular tasks and the assumption that at some point they are all worth the same effort.
- xpe 7y agoI largely agree. I’ll add this — To a large extent, many management systems are about reducing the failure modes — but I don’t see why a system must downplay creativity and deep thinking about the core business engine (often the software).