Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-projects-fail/
#HackerNews #SeniorEngineers #BadProjects #ProjectManagement #SoftwareDevelopment #EngineeringInsights
Cory Doctorow
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@pluralistic thinking about that old project management jokes about how many monkeys it takes to write code… or how 9 pregnant women can make a baby in one month. Bean counting as a form of #projectmanagement 🙄
Code is a liability (not an asset). Tech bosses don't understand this. They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code but that means it's producing 10,000 more liabilities. AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our high-tech society:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes
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@pluralistic thinking about that old project management jokes about how many monkeys it takes to write code… or how 9 pregnant women can make a baby in one month. Bean counting as a form of #projectmanagement 🙄
Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners
https://thorsell.io/2025/12/07/estimates.html
#HackerNews #Estimates #Difficulties #Developers #ProductOwners #ProjectManagement
Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
https://spectrum.ieee.org/it-management-software-failures
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People using #kanban boards,
Do you use different boards per project or do you use project labels in a single working board?
I am just wondering what the best approach would be. I usually use one single board for all work-related stuff but it is getting tricky with many sub-tasks🤔
are there any actually good open source project management / issue tracking software?