I really enjoyed my recent conversation with the DotNetRocks guys on Punishment Driven Development – if you’re interested you can listen to it here dotnetrocks.com/?show=1406
Category: Punishment
Have you ever worked in a team where there was one team member who nobody liked and who nobody wanted to work with? I joined an organisation where one of the teams had an ‘odd man out’. He wasn’t as fast on the uptake as the other developers, he always asked lots of basic and […]
What is the first thing we do when a major issue occurs in a live system? Sort it out of course. Then we start the hunt for the person to blame so that they can suffer the appropriate punishment. What do we do if a person is being awkward in the team and won’t agree […]
Earlier this year I decided to undertake an experiment on punishment and blameworthiness. I set up an online survey and asked my Facebook friends and people on Twitter to fill it out. There were 5 scenarios. In each one someone called John did something wrong and people were asked to say how blameworthy John was […]
What’s the first thing we do when a problem happens in the live system? Fix it of course. Then we set about finding out who’s to blame so that they can be suitably punished. Why is there this drive to punishment? What dies it achieve? One organisation I worked with used to have a high […]
Louise Elliott (@IvanaTerrorBull) 