Martin Fowler specializes in extracting consulting fees out of clueless executives, not software. He's been pumping out low quality trash articles for decades.
I own one of his books. The word "documentation" is not in the index. The book is about how to funnel programmer intent and other meaning through clever names and a myriad of patterns for expression-dancing semantics in code. Executives love that for some reason.
His job is basically taking advantage of the internal power struggle in corporations to help bean counters make themselves look indispensable so they can get promotions and pay raises. In exchange for large consulting fees.
As someone who's been programming for 20+ years, as soon as he starts talking my eyes start rolling. I've never seen such an obviously inept, over-inflated windbag. It's actually quite disgusting how seriously he takes himself for how little skill he has.
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0 u/derram 31 May 2019 17:04
https://archive.ph/fxvtm :
'"You couple that with project managers and customers who don't know anything about building software and that is only reinforced. '
'"Countless times I've talked to development teams who say 'they (management) won't let us write good quality code because it takes too long'... '
'"Even small changes require programmers to understand large areas of code, code that's difficult to understand. '
'When asked what can be done to fix the problem, Fowler says: "Recognise that that mindset is incorrect. ', "People say
'If you’re a startup you've got to go fast, you can't afford to have quality code. ' Well, it depends on your time horizon."
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0 u/meowski 31 May 2019 18:13
Long term cost of street shitter code is high. So high in fact it can easily kill a software startup
0 u/rcb 31 May 2019 20:32
https://blog.codinghorror.com/paying-down-your-technical-debt/ [classic from 2009] WARNING: the Housing Crisis was around that time and caused by bad debt...
0 u/HoneyTrap1488 06 Jun 2019 22:25
Martin Fowler specializes in extracting consulting fees out of clueless executives, not software. He's been pumping out low quality trash articles for decades.
0 u/skullfuku 30 Jun 2019 09:26
I own one of his books. The word "documentation" is not in the index. The book is about how to funnel programmer intent and other meaning through clever names and a myriad of patterns for expression-dancing semantics in code. Executives love that for some reason.
0 u/HoneyTrap1488 30 Jun 2019 20:29
His job is basically taking advantage of the internal power struggle in corporations to help bean counters make themselves look indispensable so they can get promotions and pay raises. In exchange for large consulting fees.
As someone who's been programming for 20+ years, as soon as he starts talking my eyes start rolling. I've never seen such an obviously inept, over-inflated windbag. It's actually quite disgusting how seriously he takes himself for how little skill he has.
0 u/skullfuku 01 Jul 2019 07:35
You mean: like the certified SCRUM/agile consultance terrorizing various teams I was in?
0 u/skullfuku 30 Jun 2019 09:23
Engineering practices and re-systematization reduce cost and improve quality? Seriously?