Same here. No matter how hard I try, and use different approaches, from coaching, to sharing videos, through poiting out why this can benefit you personally, to showing how exactly it creates results, there simply is no interest. People don't care.
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Also this is something that goes beyond what one person has as an architectural vision - at some point you will run into conflicts between the practical corporate reality and your vision and one will have to give way - most of the time it is the vision. Often that vision does not exist in isolation, but is built with at least the implicit understanding of the softer, people side.
You'd be surprised. Especially as you go further from tech, or tech minded companies. Dont get me started on more regulated stuff in manufacturing. Ive met so many value stream managers, site managers and even directors who simply cannot comprehend how fancy system X wont solve everything
I dont think so. There are amazing things that can be done with either, but they require a completely different way of structuring companies, removing the profit motive, or getting rid of a whole lot of "conventional wisdom" and old people.
There are a lot of amazing things that can be done via the management side of things, but have all but been sidelined since the rise of neoliberalism in the 80s and the MBA-ification of management in the 90s and 00s. Doesnt help that these approaches would require that managers are actually competent and learn to work with complexity, data and the like.
What we perceive as "not hallucination" is merely a very big consensus supported by education, culture, personal beliefs and varies quite a bit. And little in the existence of the model gives it the tools to make those distinctions. Quite the opposite
If only people read them. Everyone is so pressured by made up goals, fake deadlines and horrible communication, that nobody ever wants to read more than a bullet point or two.
Not gonna happen. The resources, incentives and plans even are almost exclusively about communication and people work. You can run as many optimization algorithms as you want, but an organization is ultimately made of people, and even in small startups the complexity and nuance involved in resource allocation planning and communication is too big for anything that is not a mega-super-AI to handle. Hell, in most companies these parts are incredibly dysfunctional now ...
That said, I think we sometimes tend to overestimate how structured projects like bridges are, and that almost everything we have discovered about software projects applies there too, just to a less extend - delays, changing requirements, unrealistic planning, last moment extra requests etc. etc.
The environmentalists have been screaming from the rooftops about it for a while. But activists can only do so much, compared to huge multinationals with marketing budgets bigger than some countries GDPs...
Me too, and I actually AM a Luddite
Capitalism is in many ways such a system, one that is built around driving the worst parts of human nature. And the thing is the profit motive becoming pathological is not a bug. This is the key defining feature of the system. Capitalism really isnt even about markets. Its about consumption, and producing things specifically to sell them in order to make some markup. The goal is specifically to find ways to make money, and stuff like fulfilling peoples needs, quality, workers rights, and regulations are clearly things that are getting in the way.
I lowkey disagree. I think good experienced devs will be pressured to write worse software or be bottlenecked by having to deal with bad software. Depends on company and culture of course. But consider that you as expereinced dev now have to explain things that go completely over the head of the junior devs, and most likely the manager/PO, so you become the bottleneck, and all pressure will come down on you. You will hear all kinds of stuff like "80% there is enough" and "dont let perfect be the enemy of good" and "youre blocking the team, we have a deadline" and that will become even worse. Unless you're lucky enough to work in a place with actually good engineering culture.
This is, I think very important especially for non-technical managers to grasp (lol, good luck with that).
Denmark has (had) very strong labour movement and left-ish governments, though that has been changing over the last decade or so...
Thats actually kind of the world we live in right now. With of course capitalism and aggressive extraction the whole choosing what level to live on doesnt really work well.