[Discuss] Software Development (OT?)

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On 09/09/2013 02:27 PM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> I have been developing software for a long time now. I'm finding it is
> getting very difficult. Not for the coding and designing, but for the
> "process." I find that software development has become so "process
> focused" that actual architecture and code barely gets evaluated.
>
> I find it kind of depressing.
>

I'm..... mostly not going to go there again.  I will make one
observation.  Non-technical Managers of technical people, who often
don't understand technical people OR the technology, often look for
silver bullets.  Some way to make things better/faster/easier without
much investment in money or thought.  This is not new.  Remember how we
were all going to be replaced by code generators?

Software development process has become the new silver bullet that the
consultants and the tech writers are touting.  No software process will
make a damn bit of difference without a corresponding culture change
though, and they don't want to do the hard parts. So they fail.  The
people who join because they believe in that process the company says
it's using are miserable, because they're not really using that process
and so get little benefit from what they do.  The people who are there
and don't care about the software process are miserable because they
have to sit through all the BS and it still has no benefit.  I joined a
gym SIX MONTHS AGO!  Where are my muscles??

Sounds about right?