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In the heyday of the automotive industry, the best auto worker in the world produced about the same output as the average auto worker Agree. Also, th
by cturner 13y ago
In the heyday of the automotive industry, the best
auto worker in the world produced about the same
output as the average auto worker
Agree. Also, there's a strong trade union theme to the history of autoworkers which doesn't really map to the developer experience. Something related though - what about the toolsmiths who built the factory processes and machines? I'd guess that with those guys there'd have been a big gap in productivity, and there'd have been a strong collaboration/teamwork angle and theme of iteration. They would have been scarce - maybe they still are.
- nohuck13 13y agoI agree that parallel is really interesting. Its especially true with the classic Agile stuff, where a lot of the processes are explicitly borrowed from the automotive industry, particularly Toyota: Kanban (lean process management), kaizen (collective ownership as a means to reduce bugs/defects), the notion that it's better to fail fast and stop the line, rather than send a defective product to downstream processes.