▲ 125 ▼ What is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry? (lemmy.world) submitted 8 months ago by slazer2au@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 278 comments fedilink hide all child comments Every industry is full of technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?
[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 25 points 8 months ago (3 children) The joys of agile programming.... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 21 points 8 months ago What they did was far beyond "agile". They didn't care for naming conventions, documentation, not committing commented-out code, using existing solutions (both in-house and third-party) instead of reinventing the wheel... In that first review I had literally hundreds of comments that each on their own would be a reason to reject the pull request. permalink fedilink source parent [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago When agile works, it actually works pretty well. 99% of the agile projects i've been in were waterfall in disguise (fragile for short). permalink fedilink source parent [–] halfdane@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) Sounds like you had a bad experience with the failed attempt at establishing agile development methods - sorry to hear that. I just want to encourage you to give it another go with other developers that are more experienced with the methodology - in my company we're working successfully that way for over a decade. [edited because the initial comment was unkind] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 21 points 8 months ago What they did was far beyond "agile". They didn't care for naming conventions, documentation, not committing commented-out code, using existing solutions (both in-house and third-party) instead of reinventing the wheel... In that first review I had literally hundreds of comments that each on their own would be a reason to reject the pull request. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago When agile works, it actually works pretty well. 99% of the agile projects i've been in were waterfall in disguise (fragile for short). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] halfdane@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) Sounds like you had a bad experience with the failed attempt at establishing agile development methods - sorry to hear that. I just want to encourage you to give it another go with other developers that are more experienced with the methodology - in my company we're working successfully that way for over a decade. [edited because the initial comment was unkind] permalink fedilink source parent