Re:Is Uncle Bob serious?
by LeifCarrotson on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @08:19AM
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For the reasons explained in the previous project. A source of quality in mechanical and civil engineering is that they have rigid standards, legal regulations, and thorough specifications. These cost a lot of money, sacrifice a lot of flexibility, and add a lot of time, but they work.
Agile development methods do create useful software quickly and cheaply, but are very dissimilar to this sort of strict framework.
As an employee of ThoughtWorks, he can't suggest increased regulation and specification, because he's paid to suggest less of those things. It's disingenuous, then, to complain about a lack of the results of those processes when he's advocating a method that lacks those processes.
Agile development methods do create useful software quickly and cheaply, but are very dissimilar to this sort of strict framework.
As an employee of ThoughtWorks, he can't suggest increased regulation and specification, because he's paid to suggest less of those things. It's disingenuous, then, to complain about a lack of the results of those processes when he's advocating a method that lacks those processes.