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@thudfactor Agreed. So many of these processes aren’t grounde…#
@thudfactor Agreed. So many of these processes aren’t grounded in the work people actually need to do. They’re trying to sell an ahistorical process that “drives down COGS and increases yield rate while reducing inventory delays”. That language works for a part of the business & doesn’t apply to cognitive work.
The preoccupation with “code production velocity” is another symptom of this mindset. A 4 character change that reduces RegExp CPU use can have a massive financial benefit by reducing fleet size. It might have taken 3 months to find those 4 characters though.
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@thudfactor Yeah. Avoiding capital-A Agile is a good choice. …#
@thudfactor Yeah. Avoiding capital-A Agile is a good choice. Much of this post aligns with one of the original Agile Manifesto’s principles:
“Build projects around motivated individuals.
Give them the environment and support they need,
and trust them to get the job done.”
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“Work isn’t a Gantt chart — it’s loops. Loops of trial, error, reflection, adjustment. Th…#
“Work isn’t a Gantt chart — it’s loops. Loops of trial, error, reflection, adjustment. The sooner we stop pretending phases create certainty, the sooner we can lean into the real rhythm of iteration.”
https://brilliantcrank.com/its-time-to-work-different/
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“Having done a lot of schema changes of various kinds, I think it is safer to tolerate incomple…#
“Having done a lot of schema changes of various kinds, I think it is safer to tolerate incomplete data at the application level during a schema upgrade than be forced to upgrade services in the right order or risk an outage. In other words, I think application code should be willing to tolerate data that violates the domain model.”
https://www.seangoedecke.com/invalid-states/