The Death of Mort
Scott Bellware made a post recently entitled 'Mort or Elvis? A Question for a Bygone Era'. So far in response, I've seen a few people raving about what he had to say, and how right on the money he is.
And yes, if you distill his post down to things that are only talked about that have direct relevance to the title, then sure, he's spot on indeed! Way to go Scott.
But I'd like to this opportunity just to rant (well, mini rant). This is my soap box, so I bloody well will use it! :)
Mini rant #1. People are clapping him on the back and cheering him on and saying how it's the post written by anyone this year.
Come off it.
Everyone knows that the whole Mort/Elvis/Einstein thing is a joke. You really haven't said anything new. Sure, maybe we need to keep reminding people, but there was new in his post.
Mini rant #2. How the F*** can you turn every post you write, no matter what it is, into a sermon about agile? Between Scott and Jeffrey and Sam, I'm getting very sick of it.
You're worse than the Mormons who keep coming to my door preaching about finding the lord. They can't convince me either.
Why does it have to turn into a sermon? In his post, we have this:
Being an agile practitioner in the Microsoft community at this time must be a little bit like being Galileo during his inquisition. You can present all the testimony you want, but in the end, the Holy See is really only interested in maintaining the comfort of the status quo and ...
But my problem is that while he's saying that he's presenting all this testimony, I'm still NOT seeing any how's or why's. All I see is 'you really should, things will go so much better for you.' There's almost never a 'this is what we did, and this how much time it saved us, and this is _how_ we did it'. It's almost always 'This is what we did, and you're a fool if you don't too'.
And for all the chance that Scott had in writing a post that made me nod and agree with him (and he had plenty of opportunity), he lost me.
Stop fricking sermonizing. If that sort of stuff when done by religious people can't get me to believe in god, how the hell do you think it will work to get me to believe in agile, something I have even less faith in?
Thankyou. Rant over :)