alt Hacker News4) Only the programmer who is going to write the code can schedule it.
This item makes Joel's scheduling idea a no-go at most companies. Schedules are set by management or sales and programmers are expected to meet the date or get PIP'd.
4) Only the programmer who is going to write the code can schedule it.
This item makes Joel's scheduling idea a no-go at most companies. Schedules are set by management or sales and programmers are expected to meet the date or get PIP'd.
This was written at a time were Software Engineering (not Developers) was valued more.
I had my first programming job around this time, and there wasn't scrum and all that crap. I was a Jr engineer, still in the last semesters of univ. And yet, we were treated like you read in the post: We were handed a feature and asked to do it. First estimate it , then ask the Design guys for UI and finally start coding it.
Now Software dev feels like sweatshops, business people think we are sewing jeans. And Software Developers became code monkeys.
Its quite sad.