'The man who wants to take your jobs'

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

There was a wonderful commentary on this in the recent slashdot story
about eXtreme Programming:


Extreme Programming - last decade's fad.  (Score:2)
by Pathetic Coward (33033) on 2004-03-24 18:37 (#8662085)

It's been replaced by the new methodology: "Offshore Programming":

(a) None of this "customer user story" crap that has management need to  have
regular  contact with the development staff.  Instead you give them the specs
and they do the work without talking  back  to  you.   Management's  time  is
valuable and can't be wasted on petty programming implementation details.

(b) Wasting time on testing is foolish.  You pay people to do  the  work,  so
they should do it right the first time.  If not there are plenty of others to
replace them.

(c) Pair programming doesn't go far enough.  If you can put two people  in  a
cube,  why not more?  And reduce the space, too.  But having a person looking
over a cube-mate's shoulder is wasteful.  Everyone should be  busy  producing
code.

The new methodology also has these advantages:

(d) You don't have to see the developers.  Having a group of  geeks  in  your
office  detracts  from the image you want to present to clients: those people
can never be part of your social group.

(e) You save money by hiring people that work cheap.

Extreme Programming - so nineties. We're in a new decade now.