who is going to be clean up man after you done Programming, Motherfuckers?
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#112I enjoy when Zed is appropriately flippant (irony intended). While, I don't have experience working for any teams that consider "XP, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall," etc, to be gospel, I can see that being more than "fucking" annoying. That being said, I can see some people who haven't tried these methodologies as immediately devaluing them. Don't do that. As long as you don't view the methodologies as a silver bullet they…
In all seriousness, all of the methodologies out there start out being used by some group of programmers. At this phase they're fairly successful since it's mostly programmers writing code and very little management overhead from non-programmers. Eventually though, all of the advocates of these methodologies realize that it's management that buys what they're selling. Management buys the books, hires the consultants,…
I had something along those lines happen at a company I worked at a few years ago, where the CEO was a notorious micro-manager. In desperation, I ordered him a copy of 37signals' Getting Real.
He apparently read it over the weekend, because the following Monday he announced at the managers' meeting that he was enlightened about project management now. Of course, he just latched on to one idea out of the whole book: that the ideal project team size was 3 people.
So what did he do? He drew up a list of 20 or so ongoing company projects on the whiteboard and assigned 3 managers to each project. Since there were around 12 managers, that meant that we ended up co-managing around 5 projects each.
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#113Is this really necessary?
I mean... It's kind of childish. Using profanity to fake coolness and rage driven by allegedly unique insights and experiences...
Meh.
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#114No, it's Programming, Motherfucker. There is no * in it.
fixed, Motherfucker.
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#115No, it's Programming, Motherfucker. There is no * in it.
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#116"The path of the righteous programmer is beset on all sides by the inequities of the clueless and the tyranny of evil project managers. Blessed is he, who in the name of achievement and solid technology, shepherds the users through the valley of ineptitude, for he is truly his customer's keeper and the finder of lost solutions. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would at…
This reminded me of the Tao of Programming that I first read in 1991:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Programming
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#118I always presumed HN was SFW ...
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it wasn't plain as day that Zed was serious about this, (a) I wouldn't be voted as high as it was, and (b) I wouldn't have commented on it. I just wish he hadn't built a caricature.
Yeah, I'm totally serious about it with that picture of Samuel L. Jackson right at the top. Totally dead serious. Going to start the conference tomorrow.
And I'll buy a ticket today.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see no fucking profit model in this, Motherfucker.
You're right, I skipped the Unity and Profit steps of CHE-UP since that's not Programming, Motherfucker.
I'm on to you. You didn't SKIP them, you simply can't tell us on the CHE side what your UP side is.
Nice try, Zed. <3