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I liked the joke when I heard it. Reading it now, I'm realizing that "marathon" doesn't fit as a metaphor because we don't know the destination. Orienteering,

• petrocrat 4y ago
  Orienteering implies there's already a cartographer who made a map for you.
• samatman 4y ago
  Marathon works perfectly to show how bonkers the idea of sprinting is. I like the idea of thinking of software development more as orienteering, if anything, it doesn't go far enough. To deliver full-featured software in time (note I didn't say on time, but there is certainly such a thing as delivering too late) is 10% velocity and 90% dependency resolution. I'm still looking for a tool which thinks primarily in terms of dependencies, and treats time as it is: fixed in the past and speculative in the future. I don't care if the person who put the information into the computer thinks something will take three weeks, I care very much if there are three projects which need completing before the main track can get past the third step.
  • klysm 4y ago
    I’ve always been confused about deps being an after thought in project management.
• cool-RR 4y ago
  Better idea, just call it "software engineering". You don't see runners trying to find metaphors in order to organize how they work. (Sorry, I'm a bit grumpy.)
• hirvi74 4y ago
  > doesn't fit as a metaphor because we don't know the destination From what I have experienced, I think that is perfectly reflected in a lot of software too.