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#0080 - Jim Highsmith - From the Wild West to Agile and Beyond

No Nonsense Leadership

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The Wild West of Programming

I called it the Wild West because there really wasn't anything to go by. You had a co-bond manual and you had trial and error. My mentor was a guy called Ed, who showed me programming in that environment. He would run the end of the year when Rachel closed, by pulling a card deck out of his drawer. There were not many structured methods. People just devised the best way to code.

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