[mangamadaiyan]

Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it, or words suchlike (from Santayana, I guess?).

I don't know if I'll ever see things like devops and agile die the horrible deaths that they deserve - but I do wish engineers would at least learn to think for themselves and not drink so freely of the kool-aid that CEOs peddle.

[ok_dad]

Sad part is that devops was never meant to be a title, just a way to work together effectively as a team that included developers, qa, ops, pm, etc. Devops was much like agile, they were great ideas and ways to work, but then got cargo culted to death and today managers have taken them as buzzwords and thrown away all the stuff you actually needed to do to get good results.

Management always takes good ideas and extracts the absolute worst stuff from them, if they don’t just make up shit on the fly that wasn’t even a part of the original good ideas.

[mangamadaiyan]

Yes indeed. Management almost always bastardizes good ideas and makes them terrible; and then they take it a notch further by finding and nurturing kool-aid connoisseurs in the levels below.

(Edit: grammar)