Agreed on SpaceX and partly on Tesla. What is his “tremendous positive impact” with Twitter and Boring? Not trying to argue, just curious if there’s something I don’t see.
> electrified, so that your daily commute is efficient and environmentally friendly.
Moving an off-road vehicle of over two tons to transport (usually) one person to work seems neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. The vehicle being electric doesn’t change that, as the electricity has to be generated somewhere.
I’d say that it depends on who you ask when it comes to what’s „common sense“ and what’s „a way that works“.
What I have seen working is:
- Have somebody who is responsible for understanding the customer from a business perspective and be able to explain that to developers in the form of prioritized development items.
- Try to build something that works to confirm your assumptions and manage risk, ideally on a short-ish cycle of a few weeks. Always keep a working product. In some projects this is not (immediately) possible - in that case, it’s probably better to run a traditional waterfall-project, with the tradeoffs that come with it.
- Get together regularly to talk about less immediate topics and improve the work process.
- Plan and make forecasts using actual data from the past, not wishful thinking.
And that is basically Scrum. For me this is common sense, I wouldn’t know why you would do it in another way.
How it’s implemented in practice differs and it seems a lot of places don’t implement it very well. So far I haven’t heard many good suggestions from the developers suffering under these implementations on how to make it better though, hence my question.
I’d expect from someone making 300kUSD a year to come up with their own ideas instead of spinning their wheels. Reading the article and some of the comments here, that seems to be an unpopular opinion, at least in tech.