Re:Department of Defense: Software Is Never Done (2019) [pdf]
by beckingz on Saturday January 28, 2023 @03:18PM
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Large organizations value predictability.
Re:Department of Defense: Software Is Never Done (2019) [pdf]
by no_wizard on Saturday January 28, 2023 @05:04PM
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IMO it’s not this simple. Culture has more to do with it than anything. See my note about Netflix having this mantra of “context not control”. Managers are less inclined to be domineering in that setting and allow people to do the work in a reasonable way because they are given the context of why their work is being done in the first place.
Not perfect but a more than above average way to approach the problem yet this kind of thinking or its permutations have not caught on at all. It’s still top down process oriented models
Every other place always sings the praises of agile and/or scrum but it’s always just waterfall with ceremonies.
I feel like the collective of how software is developed evolved little from circa 2006
The notion that gets talked about at Netflix is “context not control” and I think it would go along way if everyone looked at software development management this way. Too many people try to control software development lifecycles instead of just providing engineers enough context to get their work done and trusting that reasonable people will make reasonable decisions