Dead Code

Jared Norman

The software industry has a short memory. It warps good ideas, quickly obfuscating their context and intent. Dead Code seeks to extract the good ideas from the chaos of modern software development. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Dead Code

Episodes (75)

Tue Aug 18th Dragged Into Done (with Nikhil Suresh)
Tue Aug 4th No More Magic (with Nithin Bekal)
Jul 21st Twilight of the Object God (with Ismael Celis)

Dead Code

Aug 18, 2026
51¼ minutes
47 MB

Host Jared Norman talks with Nik Suresh, who runs Hermit Tech, an extreme programming data consultancy in Melbourne, about why Scrum fails. Nik argues Scrum spread through dishonest marketing (Sutherland's "twice the work in half the time" promise) and that its rituals amplify bad management rather than fix it, from Fibonacci story points that are really just time estimates to one-hour standups he's seen more often than the correct version. His core point is that the map is not the territory: Jira boards and status PowerPoints give executives a simulated cockpit rather than an accurate picture, and he admits...

Dead Code

Dragged Into Done (with Nikhil Suresh)

Jared Norman

00:00 -51:23