# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 6
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/f4dejaa
Programmers, Managers, Agile, and Failures: Software's Long Crisis
A UCLA assistant professor of Information Studies just published a short history of software engineering in Logic magazine — titled "Agile and the Long Crisis of Software."
It begins by describing Agile's history as "a long-running wrestling match between what managers want software development to be and what it really is, as practiced by t ... ⌘ Read more
@slashdot My company did a Agile trial on a side project for a prototype using Scrum and failed miserably.
The product owner didn't fully understand what was needed, the Scrum master just vanished and after the first two sprints and the developers didn't know what was needed to make the prototype usable.
I hope the problem where with the people involved because otherwise that way of working would be crazy 😱.
Usually you have to start by building a good culture and a great team that works well together. Trying to Band-Aid a process into an already dysfunctional team never solves anything 😅
Usually you have to start by building a good culture and a great team that works well together. Trying to Band-Aid a process into an already dysfunctional team never solves anything 😅