Stuff I'm starting to know now that I really wish I'd known 20 years ago
Over and over again true masters of our profession tell us the same
thing:
In The Secrets of Consulting, Jerry Weinberg writes: "It's always a people problem."
In Peopleware, Tim Lister and
Tom DeMarco write: "if you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on
a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there."
In The Mythical Man Month, Fred Brooks writes: "The Mythical Man Month is only incidentally about software but primarily about how people in teams make things."
In Patterns of Software, Richard Gabriel writes: "My overall bias is that technology science, engineering and company organization are all secondary to the people and human concerns in the endeavour."
This is a presentation I wish someone had given me when I was
younger. You see, when I was young I didn't understand the message these
masters were telling me. I was your typical developer immersing myself in the technical aspects of software to the exclusion of all else. Now I'm older I feel
I'm starting to understand the deep underlying truths they were trying to tell me. I will be using numerous clips from some of my favourite films,
including The Cat in The Hat, The Princess Bride, and Star Wars.
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Jon Jagger is a well-known software coach-consultant-mentor-trainer-programmer specializing in agile software development (people and process), test driven development, deliberate practice, design, analysis, OO, UML, curly bracket languages (C#, C, C
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