[Tautologistics]

This is such an annoying new trend to claim one's company is in "startup mode" when it is all just superficial or even straight out bullshit; it has become quite the trend in NYC now.

One place I declined to work at claimed to be in startup mode yet their offices looked like those of a financial company (which they were not), everyone seriously dressed up, and the code base and infrastructure was pretty big and inherited from the parent organization.

A place I used to work at is also going through the motions of "becoming a startup" -- a company that has not been an internet startup for over 10 years. Apparently being a startup means rewriting the whole codebase in Java, offering free snacks and drinks, tearing down the walls from the cubicles (say goodbye to ever getting "in the zone" when coding), and calling daily standups and using JIRA "being AGILE". Sticking feathers in ones butt does not make one a chicken...

[li]

I like this trend. As a developer, I always try to spend all time on tech stuff, not on overhead of management of big company. Of course, I don't want to work OVER TIME.

[aphexairlines]

What does jira have to do with it? It's just an issue tracker like any other.

[Tautologistics]

Nothing wrong with JIRA or Greenhopper but its use, by itself, does not make a group "agile".

[berntb]

Check for Java, standups, JIRA, snacks, etc.

But only free espresso -- I should forward your comment to my boss, so we get more drink options. :-)

(A Python guy just started and makes predictable noises about rewriting thousands of pages of working code from a scripting language with very similar capabilities... That will probably happen simultaneously with free Coca Cola being introduced.)

[Tomek_]

that scripting language is Perl or PHP?

[berntb]

Perl (sorry for sleeping before answering :-).

I've pointed the Python guy to Moose, "Perl Best Practices", etc. Didn't help. Sigh... It is sad when people don't stop the language wars garbage after turning 20. :-(

At least he didn't argue to replace the toilet paper with bills...

In my anecdotal experience, this seems to be a not totally unusual Python thing. (One True Way, etc.)

(And before someone starts arguing about that it might be motivated with a rewrite in some cases -- they guy is so new, he doesn't know the particulars for that area.)