Enjoying The Holiday Backwaters
It’s that time of the year when software engineers get to reflection, and project managers get very nervous indeed.
There is a most wonderful time of the year, between the dates of around the end of the first week of December and approximately the end of the first week in January, when merely existing in the modern corporate dystopia, the Grand Game of Software Engineering if you will, is almost, a bordering on a moderately pleasurable experience.
Of course, we have fun times throughout the year — finally assigning accountability¹ to an errant project management droid who got caught with their Post-Its out of order, getting HR to admit that they arranged the company Christmas party in June because it was the cheapest option they could get (but they had their own in December anyway), or the rare occasion of having a senior manager accidentally criticise some code the CTO actually wrote in their all hands PowerPoint retrospective of the year.
But, imagine, if you will, offices practically devoid of management², Teams channels occupied only by animated tumbleweeds, and stand-up meetings actually taking a mere 30 seconds or so as they’re run by developers, for developers.
Oh, the sheer efficiency of it all. It’s almost a dreamlike state.
