This is off topic a bit since the article was really talking about something tangently different, and it's probably a really unpopular thing to say, but it's been in my mind for a while. If you look at the worlds population growth rate, you can see that it is beginning to level off. That world of 10 billion that we were all preparing for several years ago is probably not going to come.
If the population stabalizes, or even starts shrinking, how important is growth of productivity? Making "Stuff" is obviously important, but in a world with lowering demand, maybe quality and distribution are the metrics we should be concentrating on.
I have 2 kids, I am the only one with kids in both mine and my wifes family. My 2 kids are the only grandkids between 3 sets of grandparents (wife's parents got divorced and remarried). They are inudated with LOADS of stuff. So much so that it's a real problem. I tell my parents to stop buying them stuff. They think i'm joking. I'm not. IT'S TOO MUCH STUFF. I wish they would all go in, and just get my kids 1 good high quality thing. They just don't need all this cheap low quality stuff.
I bring this up, because thinking this way is a different paradigm. Agile is still very relavent to quality driven development. But scale less so.
If the population stabalizes, or even starts shrinking, how important is growth of productivity? Making "Stuff" is obviously important, but in a world with lowering demand, maybe quality and distribution are the metrics we should be concentrating on.
I have 2 kids, I am the only one with kids in both mine and my wifes family. My 2 kids are the only grandkids between 3 sets of grandparents (wife's parents got divorced and remarried). They are inudated with LOADS of stuff. So much so that it's a real problem. I tell my parents to stop buying them stuff. They think i'm joking. I'm not. IT'S TOO MUCH STUFF. I wish they would all go in, and just get my kids 1 good high quality thing. They just don't need all this cheap low quality stuff.
I bring this up, because thinking this way is a different paradigm. Agile is still very relavent to quality driven development. But scale less so.