At my place of employment, agile programming seems to be all the rage. While I'm technically not a programmer, I can see the benefits of doing things this way. However, I see it as little more than a methodology; not the Holy Grail that some zealots make it out to be. Which brings us to this meditation. Yesterday, an e-mail went out to our product development group saying that there was going to be a webcast by one of the agile programming pundits today and that we'd be tuning in in one of the conference rooms. The e-mail went on to further state that time taken to watch this webcast would be your own time (as opposed to company time). Why would one do such a thing? It was implied that perhaps the reason that if you as a developer weren't chosen for one of the projects that is using agile right now, that perhaps it's because you don't know anything about it.

*blink*

Like I said before, I think that agile programming is great and all...but come on! What does one have to know beforehand to do it? I don't see it as a skill that one can put on a resume. I was trying to come up with a proper analogy. All I could come up with was being in a trade union. Being in the union doesn't necessarily make one more skilled that a non-union worker. It's just a different way of working.</rant>

thor

Feel the white light, the light within
Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will
For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come

20050130 Edit by castaway: Changed title from '&#91;OT&#93;: Agile programming a skill?'

In reply to Agile programming a skill? by thor

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