When it comes to engineering success you have to be very clever to be successful. I’m not sure how hard a truth this is for some people. Every time I hear of

When it comes to engineering success you have to be very clever to be successful. I’m not sure how hard a truth this is for some people. Every time I hear of a learn-to-code boot camp I worry that we’re training bus drivers when we really need master stone masons. The worst people to work with are the ones that don’t realize how wrong they are. If you end up with a group of them all reinforcing their mediocrity on a day to day basis then you are in a lot of trouble. Some shops can tolerate this, especially if they are just screwing together business logic without having to really innovate in terms of pure software. Scrum probably works quite nicely for them. They ship their ISO compliant b2b software once every quarter with the dollars rolling in. If you know Douglas Adams you’ll know the term B-ark. These are the B-ark software teams.