Re:Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale
by kansface on Saturday April 10, 2021 @11:47AM
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Predictability in the short term has a definite business value in and of itself, regardless if it makes development slower - or perhaps, a value to management. Certainly the degree matters.
Re:Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale
by pdimitar on Saturday April 10, 2021 @03:01PM
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You know, I am actually VERY okay with short-term thinking but not when it's 100% of all decision making.
Make it 75% short-term objective and give the other 25% to longer-term planning and/or simply playing with ideas and I'll be very happy to work in such a place.
I am not a fanatic -- and most programmers are actually quite understanding (if a bit too timid sometimes) people.
We just want the pendulum to not be on one of the sides 100% of the time. That's it really.
And as said in other comments, for some companies and businesses they are right indeed.
But not in programming / IT in general. At least not where I worked (and where many of my former colleagues worked).
It's all optimizing for short-term and never the long-term. And I have seen people playing the long game gaining a lot so I also know I am not imagining it.