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Almost everywhere management- whether wearing the skin of agile on top, is still bound to good old school Taylorism. And there is always this complete lack of understanding of the types of work there are and that you cannot cramp work related to complex, novel things in the same way you do something standardized. Alas, business dont care, cause they wont their estimates and roadmaps and plans, and we all pretend it works ...

People in some places already are doing that. The Dystopia is now

We should make one new standard for everyone to use ...

I am working in a company that never did the whole agile thing and stuck to project management approaches from the last century. I never thought that Id ever miss Safe and crunchy SCUM. I think a lot of those problems you describe are less to do with agile, and more to do with communication technology,


I have a pet passion for an old simulation language called Dynamo. I think you will find people passionate about LISP and people that care about COBOL, and C is already multiple decades old.


Rent wont pay itself. Switching jobs has costs.


The problem imo tends to be not that there are guard rails in place. It's that they are often build by people that only care about the guard rail part and completely forget that its supposed to be last barrier and that there are other things you can do before you get people to hit a guardrail


> we have pursued equality by making this dream accessible to NO ONE.

Nah, that is not what has happened. Equality is more of an unrelated thing. Business owners and capital are by their very nature opposed to the dream. Even if in a given moment of time they may give concessions, the endless drive for returns and growths means that sooner or later it will always get to the point where we are.

The problem here is capitalism.


quid custodiet ipso custodes, amirite?


Never thought Id see Beer references on HN


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