Agile [...] It used to mean “not waterfall” and now means “waterfall with a status meeting every day and an internal demo every two weeks”. "Waterfall" is a st

Agile [...] It used to mean “not waterfall” and now means “waterfall with a status meeting every day and an internal demo every two weeks”. "Waterfall" is a straw man invented to sell Agile, which has evolved into a perverse, almost psychotic Taylorism... although I believe programmers themselves share a bit of fault in that. They assumed good faith on the part of the people managing them. That was not a wise move. Technical Debt [...] Now means whatever anybody needs it to mean if they want their product owner to let them do some hobbyist programming on their line-of-business software, or else. Uh, whose side is this guy on? Is he defending "product owners"? Is he saying we should forcibly typecast programmers to line-of-business grunts with no autonomy? If so, why should we take him seriously? If programmers aren't getting personal investment in their career by the top executives, then they have every right to do "hobbyist programming" that will increase their employability, and they shouldn't have to justify themselves at all in doing so. The fact that we've failed to reach tribal agreement on this is an embarrassment.