“For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.” :: H.L. Mencken Ode to the Software Developer Fingers fly across the keyboard. The greenscreen letters and numbers, looking more like an eruption of alphabet soup than anything else, cascade down the screen. The moovees show the letters and numbers projected onto the […]
Author: george jeffry
Who Are These Guys?
a treatise on the hubris of labeling people by: Geo. Jeffry “All professions are conspiracies against the laity.” :: George Bernard Shaw Layering silicon and other metals to corral currents in our itty-bitty layers triggered an explosion more powerful than any unleashed by those pointy-headed scientists out in the 1940’s New Mejican desert. It’s just […]
Autonomous Software Developers
You know there’s a war on In the midst of the Second World War, General Groves got the inspiration that he might encourage these pointy-headed geenyuses out in the desert by sending them a management engineer. We know them these days as scrum lords. This poor fellow actually believed he could apply Scientific Management (Taylorism) […]
We’re Not a Team
You keep using that analogy. I don’t think we are what you think we are. The smartest software architect I ever met once told me, “If you get your nomenclature right, you’ll likely get everything else right, too.” Maybe that’s why things are so wrong in software development. Managers keep calling us something we’re not. […]
Agile! Leave them kids alone!
This Dainty’s Not for You The Agile Manifesto was written by software developers for software development projects. The 12 principles of the agile manifesto each specifically deal with software development and software developers. None of the values or principles require management or any other role in a corporate organization. Indeed, every value and every principle […]