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Expectations get in the way of agility.

What execs really mean by "we're agile" is, "We'll be changing our mind a lot, and you'll be agile enough to suck it up and get it done quickly."

As long as they're paying you by the hour, that should be fine.

And of course I’m super important and always right, never humble.

And at the same time very quick to criticize management because they’re so dumb.

> Rather what I do is a form of art.

Found the pretentious CS undergrad/junior dev. Sure, there's an element of creativity and craftsmanship in software development, but come on already.

You've found "the pretentious CS undergrad/junior dev" and I've found somebody who has no fucking clue what they're talking about. So we are even.

I design and implement software products from scratch for various clients. Some I own and it brings me some extra money. Been doing it since 80s. Products range - various middleware, enterprise backends, desktop multimedia applications, deep sea scanning, firmware for microcontrollers, device control and real time data processing etc. etc.

From scratch? Assembly scratch or transistor scratch?

Do you sell your art by the inch or the hour?