Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale

Re:Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale by tremon on Saturday April 10, 2021 @01:34PM (#26763282)

Have you considered the possibility that the boss’ bosses have a point?

It's the organization that shapes the individual, not the other way around. Changing a cog in an existing gear system only works if the cog is of a particular shape, and it will get chafed and dented if not sufficiently so. If the cog is too different, it will break and be replaced again.

Occam's razor says that if many different people fail within the same organizational structure, the problem is not with those people.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale by AlexCoventry on Monday April 12, 2021 @10:45PM (#26787609)

That's just begging the question, though, since the comment you replied to was essentially asking whether the promoted SEs are actually unthinking cogs, vs people who've been convinced by their new perspective.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale by tremon on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:01AM (#26791583)

But my point was that that's a false dichotomy: where is the option that they were thinking cogs that found themselves unable to change the shape of the gear system around them?

[ Parent | on HN ]