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In my career, I've gone from Waterfall, to XP, to Agile/Scrum methodologies.I've also spent some time doing V-Model. Personally, I'm looking forward to the switch to the "Screw It, This Works"™ methodology. Looking forward to the Addison-Wesley book series!

Edit: I've just founded the "Screw It, This Works"™ Alliance. Sign up today to become a certified SITW Master.

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we call that “fuck it, ship it”

or exceptionally better "Fuck it, we'll do it live"

“Let’s get this working in prod; after that, we’ll back patch it to dev…”

"Git push is prod push"

Brand it FISIcal Project Management.

Deadline Oriented Programming.

I've seen the "it mostly works, ship it and we'll fix it later" approach used. The second part usually doesn't happen of course

Well, do you want a promotion or not?

Followed by "The Production environment is just Big Test"

I work in a rather small company, but we are 100% WFH and we span quite a few timezones (From South America to South East Asia). Just yesterday I was summoned at 22:00 to un-fix a small previous fix that had been introduced earlier in the day and was affecting the production site... And the fix was meant "only" for test domains.

I like the saying that software isn't released, it's allowed to escape.

> fuck it, ship it

This is a sub-domain of Fuck Users, Ship Excrement, or FUSE-Dev.

> "Screw It, This Works"™ Alliance.

Where is the conference and the website to download a frameable printable "Certified SITW Master" certificate?

The way you earn the certificate is by making it yourself in MS Paint, from one of your other certs and a screenshot of the logo you take from the website.

It's all fun and games until you drop a decimal and end up in some real trouble fast.

And in 10 years, there would be daily team screwing sessions...

If you use "Helps" instead of "Works" (Screw It, This Helps)

Then you can have the SITH Alliance and give out SITH master certifications.

It's way better than "Screw it, it probably doesn't work, but we have new projects to work on."

Or my personal favourite: "Screw it, this works, but I'm bored so I'm going to add 3rd party libraries to it until it doesn't work".

When do we get to write a manifesto?

you are looking at it

I'm a fan of the TFTGAF (too fried to give a fuck) Coding Methodology... Everything else is an anxiety disorder.

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