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Authors bio is exactly what is wrong with software development today. Too many people who've made money at FANG companies who now think they are experts in the field because they got lucky and was hired at a time when their stock price and options accelerated based on NOTHING they did...got wealthy and have convinced themselves (and others in the industry) that they actually should be thought leaders. Insane shit going on right now... Bottom line: 10 years of non-coding experience in the industry (Sun & Intel), then about 5 years experience (assuming) development/coding and he's now a "serial entrepreneur" offering best practices advice for code reviews, architectural reviews... no mention of any product, technology or coding (where's the public Github account with demonstrable experience?) that he's actually delivered or maintained. I see a guy with 15 years of experience that got lucky with his options and is blathering on to boost his LinkedIn profile. One thing for certain, he titled his article as something provocative to get the click-bait going and using "Moneyball" certainly caught my eye and made me curious. But after reading this article, it's fraught with problems and demonstrates the lack of experience and using very limited anecdotal evidence to apply to a field that's complex and not a single article solution, which I have to say, with less than 5 years of coding and development experience, he shouldn't be considered an "expert" that gives advice on this process -- he should still be listening to people and understanding how the SDLC process works because he's clearly missed that course at Standford -- He clearly didn't pay attention to Steven Blank... Look, I know people with 20,30 (including me) years of experience in this field that would read this article and would point out, what you're reading is not only what inexperience is, but also what someone who's been too involved in the money and investment side of the business sees. If I had a manager in my team present these ideas to me and how they wanted to operate with 1:1's for example, I'd get them out of the company because they would be creating a culture of pointing fingers. Also, as a side note, when I saw the title, I immediately assumed "outsourcing" article because the premise of Moneyball (Bill Bean / Bill James theory) is to use cheaper labor to get better results by doing things that can still get performance and wins without having to play the game the way in which the rest of the teams were, completely undermining the norms and trying to get better performance with less. This is a poorly titled article, the premise has nothing to do with the Bill James theory. Lastly, I don't want to be totally negative,he had one good point in the article. Using time estimates for story pointing is a bad thing. His example of measuring complexity was a bit too vague and nuanced, but it was a better example of estimating to get to a valid burn down. But a broken clock is correct twice a day... |