Good Agile - Development without deadlines

BigTom writes: According to Steve Yegge a developer there, that is what makes Google great. According to a recent blog entry some of the Google's practices include:

• developers can switch teams and/or projects any time they want, no questions asked; just say the word and the movers will show up the next day to put you in your new office with your new team.
• Google has a philosophy of not ever telling developers what to work on, and they take it pretty seriously.

And out go artificial deadlines: "If you're in the habit of pre-announcing your software, then the general public usually wants a timeframe, which implies a date. This is, I think, one of the reasons Google tends not to pre-announce. They really do understand that you can't rush good cooking, you can't rush babies out, and you can't rush software development."

Its a fascinating account of life at possibly the coolest development organisations in the world.

Go on, say you are not a bit jealous ;-)