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Software Disenchantment
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That's not the problem.
Software used to be an artisan job, a skilled engineer carefully sculpts a solution for a problem.
Management didn't have much to add there, or visibility, this was a world-breaking problem for them, where was their value?
The solution was issue-tracking, make every line of code a bureaucratic nightmare, ensure panopticon-like visibility for everything, that guaranteed the manager was always in control.
Progress slowed to a crawl, that's fine, you just need to hire more developers, hundreds, they scale, right?
Good programmers stick to startups because large companies are just well-paying torture firms. I wouldn't go back to Google for any amount of money, but I'll do a startup almost for free, because they let me write code.
I see you've met Jira. :)
There are far worse things in the darkness than jira :( but yes.