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I'm not a big fan of agile either but "over 40" == "the smell of death"? Seriously? Not a convincing, or classy, opening line. And this was posted by the CEO of
by jaimzob 14y ago
I'm not a big fan of agile either but "over 40" == "the smell of death"? Seriously? Not a convincing, or classy, opening line. And this was posted by the CEO of Assembla.
- jschuur 14y agoPaging Wil Wheaton...
- pwan 14y agoIt's not death, it's 2-Nonenal
- nik61 14y agoIt's the ageism that stinks. What if he had identified women or an ethnic group as the primary consumers of Agile in the same terms? Irrelevant at least, self-revealing prejudice at worst.
- trustfundbaby 14y agoTotally agree, it hurts my heart that something this poorly written is a top post on HN.
- wissler 14y agoThe main problem is the illogic of it: "if young people don't flock to something then it must be wrong." Wrong. I don't agree with agile either but I actually have reasons. But to be fair, the article did say "Seven Things I Hate ...", it didn't say "Seven Good Reasons to Avoid Agile". The thing the article leaves out though is a reason for me to care about the fact that he hates something.
- lemmsjid 14y agoAt first I thought it was an attempt at humor, but it wasn't! It's funny how if you take the prejudice away it actually makes the opposite point he's trying to make, i.e. "Do you notice how as people get more and more experience in the industry they start to gravitate more towards agile processes?"