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Re:VP of Engineering - "best of the best" = no more than 12 ... by muench on Sunday July 14, 2013 @08:12PM (#6042868)
Agile is only 12 years old [1], so it might be related to the old programmer joke about HR posting job ads that require 'x' years experience with 'y' year-old tech, for some x > y.

But that's grasping at straws, and if that is the intention it's a really unfortunate way of putting it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development

* edited to address the < / > mistake MaysonL pointed out. Thanks!

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Re:VP of Engineering - "best of the best" = no more than 12 ... by fingerprinter on Sunday July 14, 2013 @09:06PM (#6043050)
"agile methodologies" are certainly not only 12 years old. The Agile Manifesto coined the phrase "agile" in 2001 (read your link wikipedia page), but the ideas were around long, long before this.
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Re:VP of Engineering - "best of the best" = no more than 12 ... by MaysonL on Sunday July 14, 2013 @09:06PM (#6043051)
The joke is actually only funny for x > y ;-)
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Re:VP of Engineering - "best of the best" = no more than 12 ... by muench on Sunday July 14, 2013 @09:21PM (#6043117)
thanks, you're right. edited it now.

I'd claim that I subconsciously 'corrected' it, but let's be honest: what good would a post about a typical HR error be without a typical programmer error!

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