On Tuesday 03 July 2018 09:32:52 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 19:51:29 -0500, Tim Daneliuk <i...@tundraware.com> > > declaimed the following: > >Except that the current attempt is to use techniques like agile, > >scrum, pair programming, and so forth to turn programming into > >a factory activity. High degrees of specialization are segmented > >by architectural role (front end, back end, infrastructure, > >DevOps ...), language, and even business unit. In my view, > >systems architecture, software design, and non functional > >capabilities suffer thereby, but I am old and crabby :) > > Where do I join the "old and crabby" club?
You become a member automatically when you've accumulated enough birthdays. I'm 83, and it just sorta sneaks up on you while you're busy with life. > > After 30 years with a DOD contractor where things went through PDR, > CDR (and often separate sets for requirements, followed by design, > followed by implementation), my last four years were in an environment > as you describe above -- where the requirements seemed to be written > based upon what the implementation of the week performed... > Thats horrible, you never know what the true target is. And realizing it makes you a member of the club. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlfr...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
