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It is really stupid to NOT allow any team choose its own process. Your scrum leader is not a wise person, to put it lightly.

BTW, SqlPad uses tauCharts library to draw charts http://www.taucharts.com

If you have any questions about taucharts — don't hesitate to ask.

Basic Geo charts are already there, but not documented so far.

In future we are going to support all type of visualizations from Grammar of Graphic, so it includes spider chart as well. In fact it is Polar Parallel chart and it will be possible to create it when support of polar coordinates will be added.

It is free for commercial use, the site will be fixed, it is a mistake in the 5min page.

Then I am not doomed... Good.

Jobs, Musk, Kalanick (Uber CEO)

I'll add that teams should be cross-functional. If every team has product related person, designer, developers and qa — they will do OK.

> if you have a skilled set of programmers on your team you probably don't need Agile

This. Craft and passion beat any process. These people will organize themselves into the most efficient process eventually.

Almost every new idea in software development is having problems when facing "majority adoption" phase. Agile definitely is replacing waterfall now and there are so many people that capitalize on this trend and don't give a shit about agile roots and principles. Every new wave is eventually hiped and monetized. Agile is not an exception. It doesn't mean agile is bad, it just means agile went mainstream with all side effects.

I personally have a strong feeling that this article is just another attempt to monetize agile, by selling "agile failure". Agile is not failed for sure. Some people did.

I agree, I overreacted. We had 20% rules for few years with mixed results, but put this practice on hold till Summer. Maybe we will not see such problems when it will be back.

Yes, we decided to do exactly that in the end. We'll see whether it will work out.

It is really hard to measure developers productivity and nobody knows how to do that with a good precision. But in general I agree that top developers should be paid good money, like 2 times less then CEO.

So Prime Minister can kill people for no punishment? Great developers have high salary, all other benefits are equal.

We just don't want to have special policies for special people. All developers are equal and it will look strange to give 20% free time back for a single developer and hold this for all other developers.

Problems are everywhere as in every other company. We have flat hierarchy, no middle management and almost nobody above developers. They do all technical decisions and decide how to implement features. Features are selected by Product board and developers have little influence here.

We don't have junior developers :) He doesn't like mentoring as well, just hardcore development :)

Our crunch mode is 40 hrs work week, no overtimes.

Side projects are fine, we had 20% rule for own projects, but put it on hold for 1 year to reach our product goals (product is not growing as fast as it should). So this practice will return soon. It seems he is not ready to wait for several more months though...

Yes, there are some tasks, but they somewhat conflicts with current company goals and he is not sure what will come next (let's say it is clear that for 3-4 months there are some tasks, but then nothing interesting)

I mean exactly that in the article. Spaces between forms and labels.

>The article author seems to have had very little experience actually in the positions that he criticizes

The article author runs a company for 10 years that creates a single product for B2B market.

So you think this is OK? http://cl.ly/image/0a0r1P1m0b2U

Targetprocess design is definitely not perfect and there are many areas that are ugly and outdated. We face the same problem as all other vendors. However, we do try to design better and better and almost all of our new solutions are better than the old ones.

Taste is personal. I think these applications have no taste.

The article is about taste, not usability. It is intentional. It is possible that usable solution still ugly. But in ideal world we should have both.

Spot on!

>The root cause is that enterprise software is not sold to the people that use it.

That is changing I think. Quite many companies to pilot projects and compare several vendors in parallel to make a final selection. I agree that is not a majority though.

Anyway, people who buys software should take aesthetic into consideration.

P.S. I am the author of the article

So someone stole your design and you cry out? WTF? Is it a kind of PR campaign? Get back to work and do something fucking unique that other can't easily steal. Invent. Cool inventions even in UI are hard to steal. You have NOTHING FUCKING SPECIAL in this design to cry about it.

Nope, it is on top of D3.js and Grammar of Graphic ideas. So in the future taucharts will provide very rich visualizations.

This book deeply influenced me last year. I think it is one of the best books I've read among 500+ other.

"Do you teach students quality?" is a question I'll remember forever.

Highly recommended.