Re:Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?
by hkt on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:17AM
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Likewise. Pretty much everywhere I've worked uses standup as a way of bullying people into working more hours, with a couple of unusually relaxed exceptions. It is a far cry from the origins of agile as a means of programmers defending themselves against a hostile organisation, as it was originally. Now agile is the hostile organisation.
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Re:Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?
by pdimitar on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:50AM
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I think at this point it should be common wisdom that anything and everything can and will be adapted to yet again introduce a power imbalance. The people who supposedly rule people -- a-hem, sorry, they manage them (heh) -- don't like it when the worker has influence of the process and especially the costs and schedules.
So they'll co-opt any newfangled trend into plain old serfdom. And they do.
As another commenter said, we should take page from the lawyers. A lot of them manage to convert bosses into paying subscribing customers.