Nils Buntenbeck

Demanding an estimate guarantees the estimate will not be useful to the business and will always drive costs up. Software engineers all know that estimates are useless. It's literally impossible for them to be accurate when you also need to build the most valuable software, because we learn as we work, and every scope change changes the estimate. Also, many of the things we do cannot be estimated because they involve discovery. Software engineers also know that managers will treat their estimates as promises. Bad managers demand estimates so they can pass the blame to the programmers when the project fails, which it always does, given a fixed scope and budget. In other words, any project that _can_ be estimated will fail because you'll be building the wrong thing. Giving an estimate puts your head on the chopping block. Software engineers are not dumb. They will wildly pad the estimate to protect their necks. If they know you will negotiate the estimate, the starting bid will be even higher. Since they can't be seen as lazy, Parkinson's Law will kick in, and they'll find something unnecessary to do to fill the time. That's expensive. Wildly inaccurate estimates are of no value for planning, either. Estimates make you arrive at the market later. Given all this, could we please drop the charade and just get the work done?

@iyoushetwt basic

In what language did you write your first "Hello world"?

me vs. @kirodotdev still like it though....

@iyoushetwt cobol, pascal

Programming language you learned once but never touched again?

Die Zukunft Deutschlands entscheidet sich bei der Wahl der richtigen Drogeriekette. Das ist alles so infantil und lächerlich.

@iyoushetwt ultraedit32 :)

What was the first code editor you ever used? Mine was Sublime Text

@alexasa79 @iyoushetwt yep :)

@iyoushetwt Turbo Pascal 5 anyone???

I've worked in "Agile" organizations for my entire 40+ year career, starting with my very first job. We didn't call it "Agile," of course, but we worked in small increments with plenty of customer feedback, leveraged CI/CD (though we didn't call it that, either), relied heavily on automated testing, paired on occasion (though not enough), etc. We had no ceremonies or roles or formal anything—we just worked (and communicated), and learned from our releases. We used those lessons to redefine what we were building. Interestingly, this work included hardware, which evolved along with everything else. Our architecture evolved incrementally as we learned. We also didn't have managers. There was somebody with the title, but they were completely hands-off. Our team was given a strategic objective and a delivery date, and the rest was up to us. Given that experience, I'm baffled by the focus on formal roles, ceremonies, & etc., having worked quite effectively without any of that. I haven't missed it. Every company I've worked with as a consultant that has emphasized those things (at first, at least) has been less effective than the less-formalized alternatives I've seen with my own eyes. Every. Single. One. This is an observation, not a theory. I'm also baffled by the "Scrum came first!" people who trot out dates in the late '90s or early '00s. The Manifesto was signed in 2001, but "Agile" existed for decades before that. The roots, in fact, go back to TPS and Deming's work in the 1970s. In any event, who cares? What matters is effectiveness. Effectively arguing "we're more Agile than you because we came first" seems ridiculous to me. So what's with all the frameworks and formalism? They all seem completely unnecessary.

@GithubProjects scrum

Scare a DEVELOPER with ONE word.

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don't try fixing things that should not even exist .. why is the washingmachine connected to the internet??

off to #serverlessdays in manchester :)

What is your favourite CONCEPT album?

@20th_Centurygal easy! mr. david gilmour

Who is your favorite guitarist who still performs today? 🎸

@MrMephisto81 desmond dekker jk from jamiroquai on a scottish beach

Wer ist die berühmteste Person, die du je getroffen hast?

git add . git commit -m “feat: stuff” git push origin main What’s so hard about the git CLI? Are you stupid that you need buttons to click on?

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