I've always chuckled at the nomenclature that's crept in around software development. You've got "agile", "sprint", "scrum", "extreme programming", "sustainable

I've always chuckled at the nomenclature that's crept in around software development. You've got "agile", "sprint", "scrum", "extreme programming", "sustainable pace", and probably other athletic metaphors I'm forgetting. There are various kinds of "stories", often combined into "epics", "retrospectives", "personas" and other literary metaphors that I'm likely forgetting. "Track Star" and "Literature Major" are not stereotypes that I recall from my peers getting started in software, back then I didn't know many other computer nerds who had done more sports than my half-hearted JV swim and football, which is pretty weak. We for the most part had all been spending way too much time in front of the computer to be truly serious about athletics and literature. But I'm old, and times change (which is a good thing). Of course it would also be darkly funny if a bunch of literate athletes invaded the software business when it became lucrative/high-status and immediately started fogging up the windshield with a bunch of vague metaphors to obscure their lack of technicality. Who knows.