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Sahil mis-diagnoses one : Bad programmer diseases

Sahil Malik : Bad programmer diseases: “”

Sahil Malik lists some common programmer afflictions, but he mis-diagnoses one: The Fr-Agilist

This actually is a symptom of a larger disease, My-way-or-the-highway-oma. This developer clings tightly to whatever tools, technologies, methodologies, and terminologies they pick. Whatever you are doing, unless it’s EXACTLY what they are going, is WRONG. Whether it’s TDD, Waterfall, Ruby On Rails, Java, or even C# instead of VB.NET. This person ALWAYS picks one thing and sticks with it. For really horrendous cases, they will frequently change their mind. Usually after they have convinced others to change. As designated by the “oma” suffix, these folks are a tumor, a cancer, on your team if you have one.

This disease isn’t limited to the technology field. You’ll often find these people at your local super-church. You know, the one with the wall-sized plasma TV in their church and with the young, BMW driving “pastor skippy”.