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It's not a mistake except insofar as it's impossible to any significant degree. It's only self-deception (encouraged by consulting cheques and/or ideological bl
by gruseom 16y ago
It's not a mistake except insofar as it's impossible to any significant degree. It's only self-deception (encouraged by consulting cheques and/or ideological blinders) that says otherwise. At least that's been my experience through careful observation.
I'm not speaking of software (only) as a hobby but of the startup community of hackers building and running their own companies. Look around you here. There are many people practicing what the word "agile" actually means, as opposed to these process doctrines. If the Agile processes are really a better way to build software, why don't most startups bother with them?
- jdlshore 16y agoHow do you know they don't? Mojang Specifications, this year's hottest new game studio, uses Scrum. The Lean Startup movement combines customer discovery with Agile practices. That said, my experience is that development practices have little to do with startup success (unless they're overly rigid or formal, in which case they get in the way of success). They affect organizational scalability and long-term maintenance costs, which fall in the category of "nice problems to have" for a new startup. I do see ideological blinders here, but not the ones you meant.