Kent Beck was one of the 17 authors of the Agile Manifesto and helped Chrysler build a payroll system. Now, he's at Gusto to help teams work better.
In 1996, Beck was invited to consult on a payroll project at Chrysler, one of the largest companies in the US at the time. When he was called in, he says, the project was in"a certain amount of turmoil," as Chrysler's team raced to make sure its software was ready for the so-called Y2K crisis.
The drawback to this method is that it makes it difficult to make changes, as any proposed update basically means starting huge parts of the process over again. Furthermore, testing the code isn't traditionally done until later on in the waterfall approach, so any bugs found late in the process often mean sending the whole thing back to the start to get identified, fixed, and tested before it could even get close to the finish line.
The way teams develop software has drastically changed since Beck started his career. Back in the day, Beck recalls it wasn't unheard of for a company to release a major new version of its software every three years. Nowadays, though, companies like Facebook and Google have made it fashionable to update software constantly — sometimes, several times on the same day.
Today, he says, developers are more responsible for the quality of the code they're producing. The responsibility for correcting their work is in the hands of programmers, whereas before, they could wait months for someone to double-check their code.
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