On: What I'm Up to Now

[bsder]

Everybody forgets that the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System project that spawned most of these guys was a massive disaster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Comprehensive_Compens...

But, then, this just proves the business aphorism that, for your career, it is better to be part of a gigantic disaster than a modest success.

[hitekker → bsder]

I definitely didn't know about this. It's a shame you're the only one to remember. Thanks for sharing.

It's telling that one Wikipedia’s citations describes their customer burning out due to the evangelized methodology: http://www.coldewey.com/publikationen/conferences/oopsla2001...

And then Martin handwaves the project's failure away, claiming he wasn't that involved, and that his methodology is blameless: https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/C3.html