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ayuvar on April 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Code Is Just the Symptom

One of the common themes at my last gig is that I would start conversations and presentations with "There are no technical problems here. These are people problems."

Eventually they tried to solve both problems by adopting a technical solution so bad that the people left.

mooreds on April 14, 2015 [–]

Peopleware is a great book about this very concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects...

A book from 1987!

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