The Danse Macabre of Company And Customer
The charade of subterfuge, lies, and deceit that is the prelude to a shotgun software marriage made in Jira.
I remain genuinely surprised how any software development companies actually manage to make any money¹ at all these days.
Well, when I say make any money, I mean make any money that us developer cogs actually get to see in our pay packets rather than the larger amount that flows, against employee gravity, right up the organisational management chain.
If you’re a progressive engineer in the Grand Game of Software Engineering yourself, then you’ll already know how difficult it is to make any progress in spite of the many repeatedly retrograde management decisions, the endless forests of badly made garish PowerPoints² that have to be navigated, and the final tiresome boss of the agile methodology itself — if you’re unlucky enough to have to work in an “agile house”- that will slowly, and inevitably, suck the very will to live right out of you.
But, as you progress slowly up the ranks of the Grand Game board you’ll without doubt come across the other primary reason why I remain in utter astonishment that anyone makes any money at all.
And that, if you haven’t already guessed from the title, is the formidable amount of nonsense that goes on between a company and its…
