Very few Google teams do anything as rigorous as XP and I doubt that many write unit tests.
And as another poster noted, developers often get frustrated because they never actually get to ship anything.
Maybe you should include these "idiots" earlier in the process so you can ship something people actually want and not what the specs said they might want.
Very few Google teams do anything as rigorous as XP and I doubt that many write unit tests. And as another poster noted, developers often get frustrated because they never actually get to ship anything.
Maybe you should include these "idiots" earlier in the process so you can ship something people actually want and not what the specs said they might want.
Convention over configuration and ActiveRecord are hardly exotic. I must admit I loved it when I discovered the Dynamic finders.