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1/ What some people lack in experience and professional discipline they are willing to make up in effort, willing to working ‘crazy hours’.
3/ An efficient business discipline coupled to an undisciplined engineering team will very rapidly make a mess.
1. Agile-industrial complex: briefly trains people, provides shiny few-day-certificates
2. Focus on methodology at the cost of the lack of technical excellence
3. Deadline and finishing of the project is prized.
“We have large swaths of people doing “flacid agile”, a half-hearted attempt at following a few selected software development practices, poorly”
— Andy Hunt
— Robert “Uncle Bob” C. Martin
-Ron Jeffries-
21/ Agile seems to have reached a plateau: the split between management and software workers seems to continue.
23/ Agile started as kind of (project) management crisis and management still seems to be a hard problem in IT.