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a neurotic ai
Mar 22, 2012
It's a popular management fad that has some good points (mitigating some of the client issues in software development).

It also leads to:

- Poor/Non existent documentation
- lovely 'MVPs' that are aggressively disrespectful of the paying customer's time
- Excusing a distinct lack of vision or guiding philosophy beyond 'iterate quickly', resulting in often mediocre output that, at best, optimises towards a specific local maxima of performance
- Promotes a soul destroying alienation from the main motivation that gets developers interested in the profession in the firs place (building cool stuff/being creative with systems).

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a neurotic ai
Mar 22, 2012

suffix posted:

mvp means my pet features but not your pet features

sure, if by ‘pet feature’ you mean only ‘as cheap and quick as possible’. The load bearing word is minimum for management, viability is a largely subjective term.

How do sprints actually turn out anything that resembles ‘polish’ instead of, yknow, half broken features?

a neurotic ai
Mar 22, 2012
looking forward to sampling some of pharmaczar echi’s wares when I’m in NZ.

:rodtronics:

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