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Most of these are the sort of "common sense" things you'd get with experience, and I mostly agree with the ideas behind this. Where we fail as a craft though s
by mihaic 4y ago
Most of these are the sort of "common sense" things you'd get with experience, and I mostly agree with the ideas behind this.
Where we fail as a craft though seems to be in passing on this information to those not yet convinced.
Inter-generational transfer of robust best practices might be fundamentally intractable since often worse practices (pushing featurea over solving technical debt, adding needless complexity and bad abstractions) actually pay well. At the same time, it's not like we're putting in too much effort into this.
- pydry 4y agoI think that's largely the fault of the medium/way the message is crafted. This looks like it aped the agile manifesto which almost went out of its way to be unactionable and vague. In both cases I'd say that the authors is getting at the right idea but they haven't really formulated it precisely in their heads. As such the value is clear to the experienced person with the benefit of many years hindsight but not to the newbie.
- mihaic 4y agoAgree, but I still don't know if there is a way to format the message in a way that the average newbie can actually accept.
- pydry 4y agoI usually formulate the hard learned lessons in the form of stories. XP kind of did this with the whole Chrysler thing. I reckon a website that aggregated these stories would be a more powerful illustration.