Over the years it has been a bitter pill to swallow to discover that the majority of my first ten years was spent working at places that were exceptionally forward thinking in ways that matter to me but it turns out don't matter as much to loads of other people. I've spent a lot of time butting heads with people who are 5, 10, 15 years behind where I empirically observed 'standard practices' are at.
The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
All of the Agile Manifesto signatories had been doing their own thing for at least 5-10 years before they tried to compare notes in 2001, and it was another 10 before most of us accepted half of XP as de rigeur. 15 years is a long, long time to wait for 'rain'.
> At Lockheed, they let you pick if you wanted to work the standard 5x8 days 40 hour week
Boeing was also once that way, and that survived the MD merger, though I don't know if that's still true.
Been there, got the t-shirt, had it signed.
Over the years it has been a bitter pill to swallow to discover that the majority of my first ten years was spent working at places that were exceptionally forward thinking in ways that matter to me but it turns out don't matter as much to loads of other people. I've spent a lot of time butting heads with people who are 5, 10, 15 years behind where I empirically observed 'standard practices' are at.
The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
All of the Agile Manifesto signatories had been doing their own thing for at least 5-10 years before they tried to compare notes in 2001, and it was another 10 before most of us accepted half of XP as de rigeur. 15 years is a long, long time to wait for 'rain'.
> At Lockheed, they let you pick if you wanted to work the standard 5x8 days 40 hour week
Boeing was also once that way, and that survived the MD merger, though I don't know if that's still true.