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In the end, a few decades on, managers still have no idea how to make software project delivery reliable and quantifiable. And too many of these organizations
by cmrdporcupine 4y ago
In the end, a few decades on, managers still have no idea how to make software project delivery reliable and quantifiable.
And too many of these organizations still act like they think throwing more engineers at a problem makes things go faster.
And the $$ and prestige of working in tech still attracts too many people whose primary interest is not just in getting things done, but being seen doing it, and, as, you say, improving their status.
The tide is going out and we're seeing who isn't wearing bathing suits. But it might be the whole beach.
... Still though the primary thing driving investment in tech and software is the same thing that drove investment in industrialized cotton mills or Ford Model T assembly lines: mechanization makes profits, and... computerized mechanization is the most powerful cost reducing system ever known to mankind.
- ResearchCode 4y agoSoftware is not reliable in the same sense that mathematics delivery is not reliable. If you're doing something routine and reliable you should be automating it.
- thedougd 4y agoManagers usually over staff because it’s an easy lever available to them to cover their ass. If the project fails or is late, a simple criticism is, “Why didn’t you scale up the team?” They can avoid this criticism and shift the focus to externalities such as shifting requirements, late dependencies, etc.