That's just this season's excuse. How often have we seen some change that is obviously going to make things worse for a lot of individuals being justified because it's supposed to foster better team communication and so make the overall unit more productive? Open plan offices, frequent meetings, ever shorter cycles for everything, ever less up-front thought before diving in, real-time messaging on all the time, etc.
I wonder how many of today's developers, including the relatively senior ones, can even remember how productive you can be if you work out a clear brief with whoever else needs to be involved and then you are left alone to concentrate on doing the work for a while, where "a while" means at least a half-day and possibly several days.
That's just this season's excuse. How often have we seen some change that is obviously going to make things worse for a lot of individuals being justified because it's supposed to foster better team communication and so make the overall unit more productive? Open plan offices, frequent meetings, ever shorter cycles for everything, ever less up-front thought before diving in, real-time messaging on all the time, etc.
I wonder how many of today's developers, including the relatively senior ones, can even remember how productive you can be if you work out a clear brief with whoever else needs to be involved and then you are left alone to concentrate on doing the work for a while, where "a while" means at least a half-day and possibly several days.