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by heisgone 3y ago
This make perfect sense. Atlassian is cornering the market of "features nobody ask for but make for good sales pitch to clueless managers".
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by heisgone 3y ago
They should have commited Powershell to be fully Typed and put more energy in IDE to make it convenient to use as a script language. The "magic" make it confusing.
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by heisgone 3y ago
It's all about Power. In an organisation, the person making the "biggest decisions" (largest budget, biggest plan, further in the futur) is the facto at the top of the hierachy and calling the shot. SCRUM is all about making
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by heisgone 3y ago
Strong typing is what allowed me to be a developer. I was never a great developer but I was good enough to be worth my salary. I was not smart enough to maintain a complete mental model of a a weak-typed software but I was able to do fairly
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by heisgone 5y ago
Absolutely. I would add to this that everyone is motivated by something different. It's important they let people have the chance to set their own motivation goals. Some people are motivated by helping others, some by solving problems,
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by heisgone 5y ago
I have seen the Lean/Six sigma people trying to apply manufacturing principles to software and it's the main reason I left my previous employer. For things to be measured in a way that can be compared, things need to be standardiz
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by heisgone 5y ago
This is all true. That being said, it's not completely a bad thing. We have to accept that different people are motivated by different things. To run a business, you need both people motivated by money and people motivated by building
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by heisgone 5y ago
The language need a fairly limited set of functions to support actuary calculations. You don't want things to get out of hand, with side effects, complex libraries, and so forth. Things need to be robust. Language like PL/SQL and
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by heisgone 5y ago
Indeed. Financial companies are in a difficult position. COBOL was invented for them 60 years ago. Then, they were the primary users of computers. Now, they are just one users among many and no language is going to be invented for them spec
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by heisgone 5y ago
As you point out, the issue is forcing people to some artificial collaboration. People don't dislike collaboration. They dislike the lack of autonomy. In my experience, Scrum teams have some of the worse collaboration. People are focus
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by heisgone 5y ago
You have to see this from the point of view of a middle-manager whose main concern is his own career and salary. First, it's much easier to manage junior than seniors, more so when you are not an engineer yourself. Also, it's more
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by heisgone 5y ago
I have been tasked with the configuration of a Jira project and just by seeing how much of a mess it is, I can safely infer that Atlassian is a political mess without a clear vision and the perfect example of Agile madness. It's layers
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by heisgone 10y ago
Exactly. You will have to take Excel from the cold dead hand of accountants, actuaries, anyone working in finance, etc. If Microsoft get Excel (online and offline) integration with Big Data right, and I find them a bit lagging on this, they