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20% time is really great. But my God, look at what some of the programmers are doing with it: "Consider the collection of engineers who wanted to promote 'agi

20% time is really great. But my God, look at what some of the programmers are doing with it: "Consider the collection of engineers who wanted to promote 'agile programming' inside the company. " How could your soul be so dead that you want to spend your precious 20% hacking time to evangelize a Methodology? Can you imagine such a person? And our author is one of them: "In my 20 percent time, I started the Testing grouplet." Yep, he means software testing. I guess it's good news for us startup founders that Google has an infestation of Agilists, burrowing into the company with their sharp little teeth. Still makes me sad, though.

bootload 19y ago
"... How could your soul be so dead that you want to spend your precious 20% hacking time to evangelize a Methodology? Can you imagine such a person? ..." Also laughed at this one. But not for the reason you might think. The engineering guys are google are smart right? I think the reason why some take up the "evangelism hat" is out of sheer necessity. Google has what 15,000 employees. I'm not sure of the numbers for those at the sharp end. With this number of smart people working on their own projects. Fierce competition for recognition would be required to get your project above the noise of others all competing for a place in the google platform, process and dollars. Therefore it's not unreasonable to expect someone figured out it might be a good idea to market or spruik. Anything to let those above, beside or below consider that my process, product or idea is better than the next. In startups this process is essential and is turned into a real art form by the likes of Winer, Spolsky and Graham who write, blog and speak where required ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70863 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70863

bootload 19y ago

"... How could your soul be so dead that you want to spend your precious 20% hacking time to evangelize a Methodology? Can you imagine such a person? ..." Also laughed at this one. But not for the reason you might think. The engineering guys are google are smart right? I think the reason why some take up the "evangelism hat" is out of sheer necessity. Google has what 15,000 employees. I'm not sure of the numbers for those at the sharp end. With this number of smart people working on their own projects. Fierce competition for recognition would be required to get your project above the noise of others all competing for a place in the google platform, process and dollars. Therefore it's not unreasonable to expect someone figured out it might be a good idea to market or spruik. Anything to let those above, beside or below consider that my process, product or idea is better than the next. In startups this process is essential and is turned into a real art form by the likes of Winer, Spolsky and Graham who write, blog and speak where required ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70863 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70863