Comments by "" (@brownhorsesoftware3605) on "Agile u0026 Scrum Don't Work | Allen Holub In The Engineering Room Ep. 9" video.

  1. Wow! Too many things to chime in on. Great talk! Count me in as a grumpy old gal who also agrees with everything. I was an English major lucky enough to start programming in the 70's when an interview consisted of the IBM programmer aptitude test. Then you had to pass all the exams during the first three months of working through the IBM self-taught assembler course. I remember asking a colleague during training about this language called assembler. I had heard of COBOL and Fortran but not assembler. Will it be useful to learn? Don't worry about that, he replied. It will definitely be useful.
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  2. I should also mention that my way-of-working has always been what has become known as agile. It is because my approach to writing software is the same as any writing assignment: Do research: analyze the audience, topic, and context to come up with an approach. Then revise until done. Writing is revision. Going back to research as needed- this is a recursive process.
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