Can you imagine someone placing you on a cockpit of a plane. Then you are asked to fly and the plane.
You have been selected as pilot based on your physics degree and understanding of aerodynamics.
You have also flown a plane before but not like this plate and the controls on that plane were very much different. For example, the throttle control on previous plane is same as landing gear in current plane.
There is no manual defining your controls. Your manager asked just to operate each lever, switch and discover what it is used for.
Will you be a passenger on that plane? Probably not.
This situation analogous to what happens in thousands of complex IT projects. There are no documentations and code which was supposed to be an agile testing proof of concept, becomes live version. The original developers left the company with the knowledge in their heads.
The passengers (end users/customers) are still being served (flown) by pilots (developers) who don't really understand what they are doing.
The IT projects still seriously lack any standardization. People still expect adding wings to a car will make it a plane.
You have been selected as pilot based on your physics degree and understanding of aerodynamics.
You have also flown a plane before but not like this plate and the controls on that plane were very much different. For example, the throttle control on previous plane is same as landing gear in current plane.
There is no manual defining your controls. Your manager asked just to operate each lever, switch and discover what it is used for.
Will you be a passenger on that plane? Probably not.
This situation analogous to what happens in thousands of complex IT projects. There are no documentations and code which was supposed to be an agile testing proof of concept, becomes live version. The original developers left the company with the knowledge in their heads.
The passengers (end users/customers) are still being served (flown) by pilots (developers) who don't really understand what they are doing.
The IT projects still seriously lack any standardization. People still expect adding wings to a car will make it a plane.
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