A friend sent me an interesting job post the other week, where the hiring manager was looking for people who can dive in and get things done without too much process getting in the way, and it struck me as being a breath of fresh air in a world of process-driven teams and particularly Agile being presented as the de-facto saviour of software development.
It made me wonder what specific problems or constraints that approach was trying to address.
I turn 50 today.
The reason I mention this is because I have seen a lot of people — mostly on LinkedIn — making dire prognostications that anyone over that age will never work in IT again if they're not currently in work, and that gave me pause for thought.
I have been thinking a lot about AI recently — probably because every other post on LinkedIn is some kind of regurgitated AI think-piece, and every unsolicited email at work seems to revolve around AI strategy — and what it means for our current working practices.
Today I (probably) invented a new technology term: Homepathic estimation