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  • LEAN from the web:

    After each iteration, project managers discuss bottlenecks, identify waste and develop a plan to eliminate it.

    1st iteration:

    Project Manager A: Requiring approval of multiple Project Managers for the same thing is causing a bottleneck. So is having to wait for a specific manager for a specific topic.

    Resolution: Let all managers approve everything and need only a single manager’s approval.

    2nd iteration:

    Project Manager B: There are too many redundant managers. It’s a waste of resources.

    Resolution: Get rid of all mangers but one. Actually, let the engineers manage themselves.

    3rd iteration:

    Consensus: LEAN development is a scam though












  • People do the designing and architecture and programming just because it all pays well, not because they have a love for the craft.

    True.
    I like programming and tend to pride myself in making good code, but when I see other’s attitude at work, it makes me reevaluate what I care about.

    Perhaps this is the reason of the memetic difference between corporate code quality vs OSS code quality. When I contribute to Open Source (at least to other’s projects), I see myself try to be as considerate as possible of multiple factors that I wouldn’t even care of at work.


  • One of my previous employers once told me (abridged)

    It’s not like old times when we could slowly work to get a perfect result.
    Nowadays, we need perfect results, fast.

    They were asking me to do technical content writing for their website.
    I quickly realised that it’s actually the threshold for calling something “perfect”, that has lowered over time.

    Clearly, I was not fit for that work, because instead of just plagiarising and paraphrasing stuff from other websites, I insisted on reading up on material from multiple sources, understanding it well and then writing it down myself. That makes it pretty slow.

    That was a year before ChatGPT, or I would just have used that thingy.