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Note the last line: 'If you are interested in new solutions to some of the issues listed above, please follow this blog over the next few weeks.'
Curious to see what their proposed solution to the old people problem is going to be...
I usually vote up Agile attacks, because I love to hear developers talk about the difference between good and bad Agile. But it's getting a little old. It seems the world is full of cranky, half-informed folks who get a little coffee in them and suddenly are ready to make grand pronouncements about the entire state of things (Love the self-recursion here) Seriously, one last time. Agile is best practices around itera…
Agile is best practices around iterative and incremental development. It's not a standard, it's a marketing term. Because it's not a standard, criticizing it is like criticizing "good ice cream". What's good ice cream? Any damn thing you'd like it to be. Excellent analogy. If best practices and incremental development are like good ice cream, then Agile is like Tasti D-Lite™. What's not to like?
There's a useful analogy to the current discussion in there.
I usually vote up Agile attacks, because I love to hear developers talk about the difference between good and bad Agile. But it's getting a little old. It seems the world is full of cranky, half-informed folks who get a little coffee in them and suddenly are ready to make grand pronouncements about the entire state of things (Love the self-recursion here) Seriously, one last time. Agile is best practices around itera…
I agree with you, but personally I'm a little torqued at the 'over 50" comment. Hrmmm.
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This sounds like an allegation of sexism, but I don't really see it.
Geek Squad CEO, 7 Things I Hate About Tech Support: Irate callers are just like those black people who don't tip at restaurants. Now do you see it? (Obviously, I made that up. Apologies to Geek Squad and their CEO who I am sure would never say such a vile thing).
Interesting to see that comments of these articles are full of "no true scotsman" arguments.
I usually vote up Agile attacks, because I love to hear developers talk about the difference between good and bad Agile. But it's getting a little old. It seems the world is full of cranky, half-informed folks who get a little coffee in them and suddenly are ready to make grand pronouncements about the entire state of things (Love the self-recursion here) Seriously, one last time. Agile is best practices around itera…
There's a lot of valid and interesting criticism of particular Agile methodologies and practices, but full frontal attacks on Agile in general are usually just malicious link-bait such as this one.
> Pair programming is like those girls that go to the restaurant bathroom together. What are they doing? Why don't you ask somebody who pairs, rather than writing an uninformed rant against it? > If you are customer, you pay twice as much and you get churn. Oh I get it, you're approaching and commenting on all of Agile from your software-as-contract-work perspective. Let me enlighten you: most software isn't sponsore…
Pair programming reminds me of the issue of trying to pair up for video games. Either you find somebody much better than you, or much worse. Because the spectrum is large, the chance of a good match is nil. In programming the spectrum is larger. When I've been asked to program with somebody, its always been a terrific drag on my productivity. I crawl thru the day, trying to be nice, and when they go the hell home I s…
People over 40 call it "agile development". People under 40 call it "programming". The people over 40 remember doing it differently -- we remember the nine month efforts to write requirements documents that then must not be deviated from even if it is necessary to save the project from failure.
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This sounds like an allegation of sexism, but I don't really see it.
Geek Squad CEO, 7 Things I Hate About Tech Support: Irate callers are just like those black people who don't tip at restaurants. Now do you see it? (Obviously, I made that up. Apologies to Geek Squad and their CEO who I am sure would never say such a vile thing).
I usually vote up Agile attacks, because I love to hear developers talk about the difference between good and bad Agile. But it's getting a little old. It seems the world is full of cranky, half-informed folks who get a little coffee in them and suddenly are ready to make grand pronouncements about the entire state of things (Love the self-recursion here) Seriously, one last time. Agile is best practices around itera…
I agree with you, but personally I'm a little torqued at the 'over 50" comment. Hrmmm.