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Because project managers, who invent these things, don't know enough computer science. The next question you might asks is, why other people need to know immed
by js8 4y ago
Because project managers, who invent these things, don't know enough computer science.
The next question you might asks is, why other people need to know immediately what other people are working? Why cannot there be a dedicated thread (aka PM) who collects this information and makes it available?
Project management would benefit by bringing concepts from operating systems such as scheduling or task switching.
- paskozdilar 4y ago> Project management would benefit by bringing concepts from operating systems such as scheduling or task switching. I agree. Perhaps this is a good time for a Free Software organizational tool, built on such principles.
- nprateem 4y agoHa ha almost. It should be: Because project managers, who invent these things don't want to make themselves redundant. It's only by pushing the falsehood that the team is so incompetent as to require handholding from someone who likes moving tickets around that they're able to stay in a cushy job.
- pantulis 4y agoWas Agile invented by PMs?
- yakshaving_jgt 4y agoThat's a bit of a red herring. How Agile looks today doesn't bear much resemblance to how Agile was described in the manifesto.
- pantulis 4y agoFair point! The interesting thing is: if Agile was invented by software engineers, how come it ended up disfigured in the hands of PMs, reinvented as Agile Coaches? My 2c theory: because the tenets of the Manifesto do not generate interest on the average developer demographics.
- paskozdilar 4y agoBecause it's much easier to implement a set of concrete guidelines (have a daily meeting, use story points, etc) and turn them intro strict rules, than to implement the more fundamental but less concrete guidelines (individuals and interactions over processes and tools). The same reason folk religion often focuses on hard, measurable rules (don't work on X, don't eat Y) instead of the more fundamental abstract ones (treat your fellow man as you want him to treat you).
- intelVISA 4y agoAlarmingly accurate, I think most PMs accept that their role is a sort of well-intentioned grift.