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Just when I'm about to give up on Joel he hits one out of the park

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/DevelopmentAbstraction.html

Nice, and timely.

Published Apr 11 2006, 02:23 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

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johnwood said:

Yeah that's an excellent article. Very few companies get it right, but when they do they've got their programmers for life. Of course there can be a bit of a downside... firstly you do need good management to understand programmers AND customer requirements, quite a rare breed, and also the programmers can end up feeling so empowered in their little bubble that they become arrogant and self righteous - a little more than a glimmer of this can be seen at microsoft.

# April 11, 2006 4:47 PM

Haacked said:

Funny, that's pretty much what I said. He really nails it this time. Makes up for anything else he's ever said. ;)

# April 11, 2006 6:13 PM

Chris Donnan : Programming - Brooklyn Style - Just some interesting posts… said:

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# April 11, 2006 10:49 PM

Fregas said:

Joel is smoking crack.

I don't know where these wonderful companies are that are going to give me my own office, massage chairs and super powered computers. I don't know where the managers are that think I deserve or will even work better if I have those things. My job has often included multi-tasking (from building machines to giving tech support to an end user.) I'm more specialized than I was, but even now my direct supervisor who still writes code also has to play server admin even though we have a full operations department.

I am a brick layer. I am a cog in the system. I may be a smart brick layer or a smart cog, but i'm not the center of the universe. Of course, I don't work for a software company. Software is merely a necessary evil, an expense for the companys' real product. But even when I did work for a software company, developers were just grunts.

OF COURSE, programmers would say this is how it should be. But are any non-programmers really listening?

Joel, I'm sure your pipe dream is a beautiful place, but I don't think I'll ever get to live there or even visit.

# April 12, 2006 3:18 PM

Christopher Steen said:

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# April 12, 2006 10:24 PM

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Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.

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