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?

For one thing – and currently the most painful for me -, the question of work environment. It is a strange thing that at most of the software companies I visited or worked at, the so called “IT” – the guys responsible for wires, hardware, maintaining server, and generally running around the building – always has a quiet office. The sales guys, who spend most of their time in meetings or driving to and from a client, they also have a quiet, nice office.

And the developers, who spend their whole day with thinking, and writing code, are dumped in a hall, all thirty of them, with constantly ringing phones and people running arround, talking loud, in other words a noisy, disrupting environment which makes thinking for five minutes impossible.

Hence, all the meaningful work is done after 5 pm, when most of the people went home, and the phones do not ring.

I want a door.