- category: opinion
- published date: 2016-05-30 07:51
- keywords: [“humane”, “management”, “teams”]
- source:
- link: {“href”=>”https://medium.com/@billjordan1/the-quiet-crisis-unfolding-in-software-development-cffbdafbf450#.2c1f4pyh9”, “title”=>”The Quiet Crisis Unfolding in Software Development”, “date”=>”2016-05-27”, “author”=>{“name”=>”Bill Jordan”, “url”=>”https://medium.com/@billjordan1”}}
[There has been] a quiet crisis unfolding in software development leading to low quality applications, unhappy employees and unhappy users. Silver bullet solutions keep creeping into our awareness (Scrum, anyone?) and predictably keep letting us down. This is almost entirely the fault poor management — or perhaps it should be called fad management. In the past I was to blame as much as anyone until I discovered and refined a basic set of practices that for the most part cause everything else to fall into place