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This resonated with me in so many ways. I frequently use the “garden” analogy and I think developing software efficiently in small teams is absolutely crucial.
by doctor_eval 4y ago
This resonated with me in so many ways. I frequently use the “garden” analogy and I think developing software efficiently in small teams is absolutely crucial. Society wastes so much time, effort and goodwill on unqualified software project (mis)management.
I have lost two important (to me) jobs because I refused to adopt stupid, inefficient processes handed down by non-technical “managers” who thought they knew how to manage developers better than I did, despite my 30 years of experience.
Reading this almost made me cry. If I could upvote this a thousand times then I would.
- mpyne 4y agoThis was a great read indeed. I was sort of surprised at the direct attack on 'agile', especially when the author's recommendations at the end could practically have come straight out of agilemanifesto.org. Seems like the Agile Industrial Complex has twisted the meaning of 'agile' in developers' minds completely out of what the manifesto's authors meant by now.
- doctor_eval 4y agoRight? I am pretty much fully onboard with the Agile Manifesto but in industry, “agile” has come to be synonymous with “scrum”. And scrum is terrible.