[rurp]

I see a lot of parallels between this article and a discussion from yesterday about how often to loop in others on your work[0]. Like most things in life, there are a lot of complicated tradeoffs between solo work and group collaboration, and rarely any straightforward answers. That said, one prevelent trend is that whatever is in vogue is probably being over used.

If group brainstorming is top of mind for a lot of executives, it's a good bet that there's way too much of it going on. If a dev team thinks they always do their best work in isolation, they're probably missing out on some major benefits to be had by mixing in more collaboration and pair programming.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30074949

[Trasmatta]

> That said, one prevelent trend is that whatever is in vogue is probably being over used.

This is a great rule of thumb, and could likely be applied to itself even, if it become a widespread sentiment.

It's not quite the same thing, but I think there might be a relationship to Goodhart's Law. It may also partially explain why Agile has gone so wrong for so many companies.