Tom DeMarco on methodologies
The obsession with methodologies in the workplace is another instance of the high-tech illusion. It stems from the belief that what really matters is the technology… Whatever the technological advantage may be, it may come only at the price of a significant worsening of the team’s sociology.
— Tom DeMarco
Did you enjoy this post? Why not leave a comment below and continue the conversation, or subscribe to my feed and get articles like this delivered automatically each day to your feed reader. If you don't have a feed reader, you can always have these articles delivered to your email inbox every day. Click here to sign up.
Here’s a related viewpoint of Neil Postman from his book Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology:
“…every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and it also taketh away. The wise know this well and are rarely impressed by dramatic technological change, and never overjoyed.”