
The Subversive Structure of the World's Best-Performing Dev Teams w/ A Radical Enterprise Author Matt K. Parker
Dev Interrupted
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The Disconnect Between Software Development and the Industrial Revolution
The way of working within the world of software development really is a holdover from ideas that began long before computers even existed. Software development exists in the world of knowledge work, right? And you're trying to meet needs of people who you're honestly most of the time guessing at and waiting for feedbackto figure out what's wrong with it. Those users don't live in a vacuum, they're living in this whole technological infrastructure that you're changing rapidly. The waterfall processes are an attempt to take a paradigm of mass production and apply it to a world of know-it-alls.
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