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You Call This Agile?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-perils-of-development dept.

JoelonSoftware's most recent piece is about some of the fallacies in "Agile" software and some of the issues within it. We use Agile in some parts of the company, and have had success with that -- that said, there's always the peril that happens when development and other parts of the company have...miscommunication, which sounds like the problem described in Joel's piece.

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  1. What universe did this come from? by autophile · · Score: 5, Funny
    From TFA:

    This Is Why Programmers Get The Big Bucks. The whole reason you gave them Aeron chairs, unlimited M&Ms, free catered lunches, and the kickass computers with the 30" LCDs...

    Leakage from an alternate universe far from our own?

    ...is so they can deal with new bugs Microsoft introduced in their code by messing up a DLL that used to work.

    Okay, it's a universe very close to our own.

    --Rob

    --
    Towards the Singularity.
  2. Re:Context switching, aka, incompetence by Tim+Browse · · Score: 4, Funny

    So why not become a programmer? Apparently, you'd work less hours, have better conditions, a better defined job, and not get interrupted all the time.

    After all, I'm sure programmers' jobs are easy. Just make the switch.

    In the meantime, junior, pipe down and fix the mail server.