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LTS == 15 Years Not 5

Once again the battle between tiny x86 minds and reality has happened. They continually claim an LTS is only 5 years when it needs to be a minimum of 15. It’s a result of AGILE hacking on the fly instead of planning and actual Software Engineering. Btw, our featured image was graciously provided by lemontreesites. I’ve written before about short term thinking at Qt. This “good for this quarter” mentality sadly isn’t unique to that … LTS == 15 Years Not 5Read more

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Did AGILE make the 737 Max fall from the sky?

AGILE. The new corporate buzz phrase for hacking on the fly. Keller MBAs in a room sounding like a yard full of chickens chanting “cut costs, cut costs, cut costs” have been falling all over themselves because when you remove engineering from “software engineering,” it’s cheaper. You can even use lower skilled, lower cost developers because they don’t have to know much to do AGILE. Software engineering is the application of principles used in the … Did AGILE make the 737 Max fall from the sky?Read more