Dr. Cat HicksI guess for me if your model for improving "developer experience" does not take seriously the social constructs around human ability that will forever limit who we let into "software" if we don't face them, well, I can't take your model seriously. It won't solve problems it'll just move them
Software people get all kinds of upset when I point out many models that claim to be empirical only measure men. I personally feel it's obvious, I understand it's shocking to software but it's not shocking to me. I understand it! My refusal to accept it is what's unacceptable to tech.
People ask a lot of social questions they don't want social answers to. Like why doesn't a software methodology change the balance of power? Well let's see, did it have a structural understanding of power and a plan for that?? No?? Ok
Jeremy KahnMy (therapist) spouse is convinced/has convinced me that all of
- "agile" planning
- reorganization (e.g. toggling between functional alignment and product alignment)
- unmeasurable "impact" talk
- retrospective "I know it when I see it" goal setting
are tools chosen (sometimes unconsciously) to undermine and disorganize labor solidarity
Funny how those are the methodologies and practices that keep getting proposed
Pit Schrader@trochee that’s interesting, do you happen to be able to share some of the arguments for this? I’m very interested.
The arguments here are all basically "the purpose of a system is what it does" in more words
@trochee Ah, right.