Re:"Joel Spolksy is wrong about my work" - Kent Beck
by plinkplonk on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @03:51AM
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".. and I don't think these people write very much code"
and why is this objectionable? Joel Spolsky thinks some agile "gurus" don't write much code.
Fwiw, I know at least a couple of these "guru" (note the quotes) folks who don't write production code and haven't done so in years and make their living telling other people how to write their code !
The correct way to counter this is to point at (open source) code they wrote (Bob Martin does this by pointing at the Fitnesse code base, so he got this part right imo), or if it is not possible, just calmly assert that Spolsky's thinking is wrong and leave it at that.
and why is this objectionable? Joel Spolsky thinks some agile "gurus" don't write much code.
Fwiw, I know at least a couple of these "guru" (note the quotes) folks who don't write production code and haven't done so in years and make their living telling other people how to write their code !
The correct way to counter this is to point at (open source) code they wrote (Bob Martin does this by pointing at the Fitnesse code base, so he got this part right imo), or if it is not possible, just calmly assert that Spolsky's thinking is wrong and leave it at that.