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Re: Nobody Expects the Agile Imposition (Part V): Meetingsby sundialsvc4 (Abbot) |
on Dec 13, 2010 at 20:52 UTC ( [id://876935]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Fifteen years ago, the “magic bullet” was, well, something else. Twenty-five years ago, something different. Thirty-five years ago, someone wrote The Mythical Man-Month. (It was a great deal easier to read than Programmer’s Death March, or maybe that’s just me...)
I am pleased to see, however, that the wheels of commerce are still turning: whether or not software development actually bears any resemblance at all to the game of rugby, you can still make money selling the idea to
Software development is no more strange an undertaking, and no more intrinsically complicated, than “building a house, starting with Pretend that the thing that you are building is not intangible. Give up on the notion that it plays by different rules from anything that has ever gone before. Emphatically, what fails the most in a software project is internal communication. Things get dropped and overlooked because there is no mechanism in place for keeping track of them. Software goes into production un-tested because there is no actual mechanism in place to test it, and no time in the schedule to deal with it when problems surface. Silver-bullet “solutions,” and the expectations that go with them, merely exacerbate this problem.
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