If you look through the managers who are weighing in on this thread, you’ll notice a common perspective: they don’t trust you to actually work on something. That’s why I have so little hope for any software methodology - even if it starts from something positive (like XP, which was the precursor to “agile”, did), it will be turned into “I know all of my programmers are stealing from me, how can I stop them?”
In part because we still measure effort in hours instead of in wear and tear. That guy answering comments on Hacker News is probably trying to recharge, not steal from you.
I learned recently that the crane operators that unload cargo ships at some major ports can’t work more than four hours at a time. The movements are too precise and take a great deal of attention. I think you can work two shifts per day but there’s a mandated gap of some number of hours between them.
If you look through the managers who are weighing in on this thread, you’ll notice a common perspective: they don’t trust you to actually work on something. That’s why I have so little hope for any software methodology - even if it starts from something positive (like XP, which was the precursor to “agile”, did), it will be turned into “I know all of my programmers are stealing from me, how can I stop them?”