[JoeAltmaier]

I blame the modern attempt to turn software developers into assembly-line workers. With sprints and tasks and momentum and a million tiny cuts that take the innovation out and replace it with anonymous criticism and process over product.

[mlthoughts2018]

I largely agree. Modern companies are set up to cargo cult lots of process and pay lip-service to innovation while taking extremely risk-averse and conservative approaches to practically everything they do.

Nobody has any idea what’s going on; nobody has clarity. And when someone does have clarity, middle management is only interested if they can set it up like a battery to harvest credit from. If they can’t, their incentives are usually more aligned with intentionally abusing process to “manage out” innovative people.