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Re:Workers quitting over return-to-office policies by ekianjo on Sunday May 29, 2022 @01:10PM (#31550750)
> To use a crude example, if you’re in a rock band composing songs together, you would never consider that interrupting the bass player to suggest a slightly different riff would be “an interruption that cost them 20 minutes of focus

Bad analogies are not very persuasive

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Re:Workers quitting over return-to-office policies by tshaddox on Sunday May 29, 2022 @01:37PM (#31551007)
If you think software development can be a collaborative creative process, it’s really not a terrible analogy.
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Re:Workers quitting over return-to-office policies by ekianjo on Monday May 30, 2022 @07:25AM (#31557849)
This analogy sucks because a rock band cannot make songs without actually playing together over and over again. You can however build software in modules or independent parts as long as you have clear specs about what each part should do and proper testing. Thats why you can outsource some software dev but you cannot outsource a rock band.

Terrible analogy.

If you want to pick something that makes more sense to compare, it would be something that is engineering related.

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Re:Workers quitting over return-to-office policies by tshaddox on Monday May 30, 2022 @12:13PM (#31560487)
> You can however build software in modules or independent parts as long as you have clear specs about what each part should do and proper testing.

Where do these clear specs come from? That’s the creative process I’m talking about.

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