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Comment Re:You're dying off (Score 1) 287

I was going to post that the problem domain is much more demanding because it is much less constrained. Heat, cold, vibration, pot holes, safety, pollution controls, timing, ignition, etc. There is specialist knowledge Google et. al. simply do not have. Much more difficult than a shiney little mobi app. Over 100 years of domain knowledge goes into each and every car. Hell, they still can't even get the maps straight. A problem that was solved years ago by map makers.

Comment Re:agile works great^H^H^H^H^Hcheaply for... (Score 1) 507

OK, this is close to what i was going to say. But basically I think if you approach it as a 'one size fits all' or some sort of silver bullet approach it will fail. Use it in the domains it is good at. For other projects, you have to look else where.

In my case we have teams scattered across the world working on a very large enterprise scale project. I do not think Agile works well in that environment. I am unsure what does. ANd unfortunately we are doing things referred to as 'Agile' but is not. It is merely an excuse to keep us on an insane release schedule. SSDD. Or to put it another way, 'Ground Hog Day'.

Comment Re:"an emotional buffer for consumers as well." (Score 1) 278

Yep, except instead of an aquifer you use rivers. As in "upstream human and agricultural waste goes into a river and then it enters a waste water treatment plant". You are merely replacing "river" with "aquifer". By the way, I find agricultural chemicals to be more of a concern in my mind.

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