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> It amazes me that I see team after team of competent well intentioned developers create one ball of mud after another. It's striking really. It is! But I don
by RealityVoid 6y ago
> It amazes me that I see team after team of competent well intentioned developers create one ball of mud after another. It's striking really.
It is! But I don't understand... how? How does that happen? You should put good people together and get something good. But it is not always so. Very puzzling to me.
- krasicki 6y agoOh, look, the answer is easy. Manage these projects with SAFE. SAFE is a corporate friendly Agile methodology that essentially says, "Fuck that agile stuff. Use the Agile vernacular to keep being as unproductive as you always were." This is like heroin to these corporations. They use Jira and Rally to create a cult of numerology games that reduce tasks to filling time-boxed, random things- to-do. Be sure the Agile coach is drilled in the game and clueless about "technical-things". Add an equally clueless Product Owner whose background is Word and Excel and you'll create the best Big Ball 'O Mud anybody ever wished for. And if you're running late, add a dozen or so new inexpensive -cough- "developers" from your favorite outsourcing firm.