Simo Virokannas

Writings and ramblings

Tag: management

  • Software project management method obituaries considered harmful

    Software project management method obituaries considered harmful

    I’ve noticed a recent increase in project management method “obituaries” – Agile is dead, waterfall is dead, scrum is dead. I believe this sort of negativity should be considered harmful. Why? Every method was born out of necessity It’s only natural that in the early days of programming, in the 1950s and 60s, most projects…

  • A Monolith, Perhaps?

    A Monolith, Perhaps?

    In the context of this article, the word “monolith” is used to represent monolithic development: a software or environment that lives in one source code repository and has one versioning scheme. This does not necessarily mean a single binary executable, or even a system that runs on a single computer. Almost every project starts as…