皇帝的新装

我在做的项目都快成皇帝的新装了,老板们成天鼓吹着,我们的技术好啊,我们也跟着点头,嗯,是好啊,偶尔有人嘀咕一句:“可是到底好在哪呢?”便立马被打压下去,质疑在这里是不允许的,no question!还有,仿佛我们的产品是一个珍贵的花瓶,不能碰,一碰就碎。可是,对一个什么都不让做的产品,用得着雇那么多程序员吗?!难道真的想养一批patch programmer

也许老板们真的只喜欢听好消息,可是,如果真的这么好,那还要我们这些人干什么,赶紧拿出去卖钱好了?!

平等

Martin Fowler Bliki: Diversity: To deal with this, I need to relate another favorite story, this time a recent one. A prospective client of ours gave a talk that included some thoughts on race that seemed to come out of 1930’s Alabama. Just about everyone was offended, but the best reaction was from a young black analyst which I’ll paraphrase as: “When he says things like that I don’t want to walk away from this job in anger. Instead I want to work with this guy, to be in his face with my abilities and professionalism. People like this won’t change if no one is there to show them differently. People need to step up and be change agents even when its uncomfortable.”

netcasper:看来追求平等需要相当大的勇气!另一则消息是Apache hopes to encourage female coders