How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)

Re:How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020) by ljm on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:35PM (#26207687)

Peopleware, Mythical Man Month, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and similar classic texts were all written decades ago.

It's been over forty years and many organisations haven't learned a damn thing from it. I don't blame developers for it, there are no dicks and idiots involved here.

Read one of those books now and it will still feel like an epiphany.

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Re:How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020) by leetrout on Saturday February 20, 2021 @04:21PM (#26208110)

You are very correct.

I think they all have weak spots but any one of those will indeed illuminate one on how broken pretty much every place is. I’d like to try working at bridgewater where there are less games played.

One thing I’ve noticed is pretty much nowhere wants to acknowledge and act on employees emotions (for better or worse).

I love this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16603929

And this article is pretty good:

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/5289.html

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