I think that I left software development just as these schemes where becoming en vogue. Being on the outside of the industry and reading about all of these acr

I think that I left software development just as these schemes where becoming en vogue. Being on the outside of the industry and reading about all of these acronyms of "how to succeed with great apes" ... it reminds me of being in middle school band. It smells like how first chair worked to get all of us clarinets to practice more and to try to out do each other performance-wise. It works. But eventually it changes from first chair to "first chair". And then it became, iirc, a lighting-rod for interpersonal problems amongst the single-reeds that became disruptive. I suppose that I think of these schemes as MBA-encoded first chair politics. They work while the meta-game is immature. But as soon as players get to see the carrot for what it is ... it is all about a competition for who gets to hold the stick.