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  • @RidcullyTheBrown
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    11 month ago

    I disagree, this has nothing to do with software development models, It’s all about purpose. If your website must start making money quickly, then you can be sure it will have a payment model regardless of how things are developed. Social media business (and others) translated user growth into investment models: you give us this much money at this “completely made up valuation” and we’ll use it to grow our user-base by this much.

    This was possible because interest rates have been very low for the most of the 2010s. This meant that investors would be losing money if they held on to it so they just threw it at “the new tech” hoping something would stick. In the past few years, inflation has driven the interest rates very high and it means that money is not cheap anymore so all these businesses now have to transition to a money making model. That’s all.

    • Victor
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      11 month ago

      Right, but the reason why you employ an agile software development model in the first place is because you want to make money fast. The slow waterfall development models don’t really lend themselves to fast bucks, do they.

      • @RidcullyTheBrown
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        11 month ago

        The project management approach does not dictate the feature priority. The business dictates the priority. Project management is just a tool

        • Victor
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          11 month ago

          The project management approach does not dictate the feature priority.

          No, but it does affect development speed.

          • @RidcullyTheBrown
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            11 month ago

            what relevance would that have over the time span discussed here?

            And no, whatever you read about agile, the development speed comes down to people not to procedure. That’s true even if we disregard the fact that very few companies claiming to use agile actually understand what agile is

            • Victor
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              11 month ago

              Well you seem very sure of yourself so everything you say must be correct. Whatever I read is false, whatever I’ve experienced myself is false, gonna take this dude’s word for it. ✔️

              Agile is of course a tool, and you use it to achieve your goals. And of course it comes down to the people using it. Just like a hammer is useless to a centipede. I’m just saying, I’m comparing agile to waterfall as the only changing variable factor.

              Like how deep can you nitpick this.

              • @RidcullyTheBrown
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                -11 month ago

                you’re attributing a state of fact to a cause that has nothing to do with it. I’m not nitpicking, i’m pointing out a fallacy: the effect doesn’t prove the cause, it only works the other way around

                • Victor
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                  11 month ago

                  I’m not attributing it as a sole factor, like I said. Not a sole factor. Not a sole factor. I hope it sinks in now. Not a sole factor.

                  • @RidcullyTheBrown
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                    11 month ago

                    Yeah, a contributing factor for sure. Just like whatever company produced the pencils used by Einstein was a contributing factor to the theory of relativity. Not a sole factor. No, not a sole factor but a factor. Yes