Reading the book of Tom DeMarco – Slack: Getting past burnout, busywork and the myth of total efficiency.
I like these books. Really, I like Peopleware, I like Slack, I like Inmates are running the Asylum. I like all the books where they tell me how good software development could be.
One question though: If it works so well, how come that not a single coproration, company, whatever works on these principles?
Mind you, I have not seen even one company where software development is not a chaotic, omg we gotta finish by NOON
process. All these companies have are smiling project manager people with nice charts and checkboxes and they tick happily
away while the deadlines are missed.
If these ideas work so well, why not a single company ever tries them?