Comments on: Resume Driven Development (RDD)

By: Shahid N. Shah

Shahid N. Shah — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:30:33 +0000

Great point, David Anytime developers make decisions based on what they like or know instead of what will service the customers and the business development becomes a tough row to hoe.

By: David

David — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:10:09 +0000

Ever come across “Magazine Management”? Where a Senior Face decides that a new project should be implemented in Z where Z is the subject of an article in his favourite magazine.
Never mind that Z is new and unproven and that there are no tools or resources, and nobody has any experience working with it. It's the new thing and that's the way we are going.

By: Wicker Bench Storage

Wicker Bench Storage — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:07:43 +0000

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Practical X Scholar Programmer « Rodrigo Gama — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:26:58 +0000

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By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:00:35 +0000

an Old post, but it still help to improve my knowledgebase.
Healthcare plus IT is a great job

By: Cyril K.

Cyril K. — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:22:22 +0000

It’s really problem, it’s big problem for companies where it take place. But it’s rather complex problem than only management or development organization.

When teams work by model you call RDD, it’s mean that they only not motivated as well, they not feel their relation to the product and result, and probably not stay in company for a long time.

By: Chalam

Chalam — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:24:35 +0000

Shahid,

I got your point, but you can’t summarily put the blame on the programmers. Managers are equally responsible in amassing ridiculous software junk in the organizations that are no way relate to each other and then one fine day will start looking for a programmer to fill a position

“who has hands on development with Java, ETL, Cobol, Python, C# and ….. my ass…. able to work independently….. with minimal supervision….”

This kind of job market makes the programmers becoming “Jack of many trades” and “Master of none”.

If i don’t get a job and sit on bench for months due to this “Jack of many trades”, whose fault is it?

By: Sree

Sree — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:39:53 +0000

Hi, Impressive carrier. Healthcare plus IT excellent how about some RealEstate and Legal experience that will full fill the top notch of industry )..good luck and wish me the best, had done lots of IT stuff now just started the HealthCare exposure.

Sree

By: Praveen Jhurani

Praveen Jhurani — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:19:57 +0000

Though this is an interesting article and I like the acronym, I would like to resonate the statement that this is more market driven and one of the factors of fast pace/growth in new tools/technologies. In my experience, most of the times good developers are able to embrace new tools and technologies and deliver if business requirements are clear and well defined. Decision maker should have the insight/experience and depth and breadth to do pros and cons analysis, understand the risk/reward and be able to ask insightful questions. Beyond that its like any other business decision.

My 2 cents.

By: MLO

MLO — Sat, 12 May 2007 05:35:02 +0000

Hrm… I have been in the IT field for nigh onwards of 10 years and have never seen this coming from experienced and competent developers. More often, it is Marketing or Senior Management who have read the “buzzword of the day” coming and saying “I must have this!”

I have worked in academia, manufacturing, banking, and publishing – and it has been the same in all of those fields. Technology decisions are never driven by what is best – rather, they are decided by someone in the chain of command reading an article in Info World, Computer World, or CIO (if tech chain), or even The Wall Street Journal. Often, these so-called “new technologies” are already in place.

But, the developers who are complaining have a valid point. I actually had a recruiter who had had a customer looking for someone who knew XML, HTML, SGML, and databases. Um… if the person knows SGML and databases they are qualified to do what the person was asking. Of course, the rate quoted was ridiculously low since there is a dearth of people who know both. However, the search was unnecessarily narrowed by insisting on having several keywords show up in the resume that are just subsets of knowledge within the main field – which anyone who truly knows the field already knows.

Honestly, since the dawn of outsourcing the situation has gotten much, much worse in every field – not just IT. Oh, and the dawn of the MBA. I have managed both MBAs and non-MBAs and with very few exceptions, I have always wanted to fire MBAs because they showed an incredible arrogance and unwillingness to learn. Give me a hardworker with experience and the proper technical knowledge any day.

RDD is something the MBA mentality and outsourcing created. Guess what, you have to eat that which you have sown.

Pax,

MLO