Ok, I’m sorry, I’m going to ruffle feathers here but… I’m trying to read some newer development process books and… oh my… even super popular ones are so immensely long winded and unconvincing in their dogmatic argumentation: this is bad, this is good, because I said so that’s why.

Recent examples that I’m struggling to finish: “Team Topologies” and “Data Mesh” - I mean they might be great but I’m getting strong “this should’ve been a blogpost” feels.

The worst part of Agile and Lean etc has been the wave of folks earning their living telling you confidently how to build while they themselves have barely ever shipped anything.
I mean… get that money I guess… but it sucks to be continuously refactored *cough* reorged because someone who can’t build read the executive summary of a book by someone who can’t build.
Jeez this was hash, Patricia. Eat your dinner.
I’m dying. “If people are talking with each other of their own accord that’s a bad sign because…” I don’t even know.
Dear lord are they reinventing silos but with fancy words?
I ate. And it didn’t help.
“Monolith bad!” “Micro services good!” “People talking bad! People talking is basically a MONOLITH 👻”
I think maybe I shouldn’t be allowed to read.
Seriously so far the good parts of Team Topologies are the parts they have taken from other peoples work.
I suddenly remembered the Agile Coach I pissed off a few years ago that angrily told me he had actually been a dev for two years fifteen years ago!
Omg these people are ridiculously condescending
Help. Why do folks love this book?
Please. It is a mashup of 10 other pieces of original work.
If only the mashup made sense. But it doesn’t.

I can’t. “This is how you simplify things for these silly dev folks who struggle to understand even basic stuff.”

“How to break down large domains”

If you think that there is a Perfect Org Breakdown for all the things I believe you don’t know anything about anything.

Fuck it. I will refuse to listen to anyone saying “team cognitive load” to my face.
I posit that this book is result of a bunch of folks who are personally struggling to understand how anything is ever built by anyone.

“Here is example number four of a team who struggled to keep up with requests after a lot of people started to use, love and depend on the thing the team had built”

“They are struggling because… actually… they are extremely dysfunctional and not actually… extremely successful”

Grrrrr 😡

I’m sure they TALKED WITH THEIR USERS ☠️ fuck that monolith behavior.
You should break them up right now. This is the death of software.
Ok, they are ripping off everyone, but they don’t even understand the stuff they ripped off.

@Patricia I'm pretty sure if you say outlandish opinionated stuff about something a lot of people have a lot of money riding on, that affects a lot of people, you'll get enough people talking about the book to retire early and never have to care about it again

so maybe that was the plan all along?

@caitp I mean, if you just throw out parts of everybody else’s books you are bound to manage to piss off everyone or possibly creating a religion.