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klinkenbecker wrote: But, if all your Agile implementations are as described, you are not 'Agile' you are pseudo-agile - the buzzword has been co-opted to exercise more control, with less respect and less transparency.
Far as I ever saw that is true of every process control that I have ever seen. Every Agile company, every Waterfall company, every adhoc process control idiom.
None of them ever fully and correctly implemented it. I don't doubt that some do it better. Back when I researched process control extensively and read all of the studies on it, there were a very few companies, perhaps 5 in the world, that were far enough along that they could actually measure the progress they were making. The vast majority of the rest, this was for companies actively seeking the goal and attempting to measure what was going on, failed in major ways continuously.
I remember becoming much more aware of this when one company I interviewed at, during the interview process, mentioned that they wanted to start doing source control. As in they were not doing it at all at that point. Source control is one of the measured aspects in process control which is the easiest to actually achieve repeatable and successful results. (Some are much, much harder.) Yet that is not the only company I have seen where it is not happening.
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mkrohn wrote: That is hurting the quality of software. Everyone who has used Office 2003, and Office 365, can note the former has better performance and less bugs, while the later takes more time to start and is more difficult to accomplish tasks,
And then your argument devolved into something that had nothing to do with your point.
Office is a Microsoft product which is driven by the need to make a profit. Note that nothing in that prior sentence says anything about technology nor development. Additionally 365 exists because industry (all sorts) recognizes that service driven revenue is more sustainable than product driven revenue. So 365 is a service where Office 2003 was a product.
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My experience is that the managers using Agile to blue-collarize software development are industry insiders, not outsiders. They try to import a code-at-all-costs mindset from a few companies that compensate their developers highly to lesser companies that treat their workers like interchangeable parts.
Software developers are in some ways victims of our own success. Better programming languages, frameworks, and delivery models we developed over the last 30 years have lowered the barriers to entry into the development field, making blue-collar software development possible. At the same time, for-profit businesses rapidly educating semi-skilled developers are providing a veritable flood of the bluest of blue-collar software workers.
I think we will eventually discover that there are actually two software developer careers, one involving lots of intellectual effort and engineering discipline building tools and frameworks for the other kind of career writing CRUD screens and login pages under relentless Agile deadline pressure.
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I'm not directly involved in software development, but I see a few parallels in another field. I am a retired structural engineer. When I started architects were in charge of the design process. Many are now involved only in concept and the "looks". This is because they failed to learn how to cover the whole range of what is now a complex process. Engineers find that a reducing amount of their work involves an architect.
I read moans on coding forums about how management "don't get it". Management are simply trying to meet the requirements of the person who is paying. If more "software engineers" developed an attitude of "that is the challenge, how can I solve it?" then they would become their own managers.
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The low-code and no-code movement is part of an increasing democratization of programming -- borne of necessity -- extreme necessity. All the way up to "quality of tool from a cereal box" level
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In a well-run shop, the tools stay shiny. The gummy and rusted tools I've seen in my life are usually the result of some idjit leaving them outside unused, rusting.
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A team of theoretical physicists working with Microsoft today published an amazing pre-print research paper describing the universe as a self-learning system of evolutionary laws. Would someone mind hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del?
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Nah, I'll hit Ctrl+Shift+QQ(hitting q twice.)
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Then they ran out of mushrooms
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Wonde Tadesse
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A pretty faithful reproduction of the classic game With all the awkward movement controls you (hopefully) remember
It's a slow week, bear with us
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Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it "challenged" a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug. The robot uprising has begun
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Alexa came installed on my new laptop. It and McAfee survived less than a day.
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My inner negativist says Alexa is so connected to her web history that stupid viral TikToks prompted this. I would prefer robot overlords.
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At least Alexa didn't say to eat a Tide Pod... or drink bleach, like we should all do
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oofalladeez343 wrote: or drink bleach, like we should all do Finally, someone who's more pessimistic than me!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yeah sometimes humanity is so darn depressing I just want to find a Halo Ring and activate it. Or do release the Flood...
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Alexa is a baby terminator (T100).
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Many LastPass users report that their master passwords have been compromised after receiving email warnings that someone tried to use it to log into their accounts from unknown locations. Company changes it's name to "NextToLastPass"
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"Think of the convenience!," they said.
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This data-driven infographic shows the status of Webb on its journey to L2 orbit. If they have to ask, they could be in trouble.
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Wow, that's impressive. Definitely will keep that tab open.
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Google has been booted from the top spot, with a social media app taking out most popular website for 2021 in a shock upset. How do I TikTok to find Bing?
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Microsoft has confirmed a new issue impacting devices running Windows 11, version 21H2, where apps using Win32 APIs to render colors on some high dynamic range (HDR) displays may not work as expected. It's not a blue screen of death, it's periwinkle
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Linux and open-source software will be hotter than ever, but the real changes will be in how they're secured. Everyone else can have the year off
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