The Generational Divide in Software Developers
I can&#x27;t upvote this article enough times -- it&#x27;s concise yet rich with astute observations.<p>Just one example: &quot;Thirty Years Ago...Insulating developers from interruptions was management’s Prime Directive.&quot;<p>From my own experience, when I started at IBM in the mid 1980s, we had private offices just for this very reason.  Me and my colleagues also recognized, though, that we were on the tail-end of those good ol&#x27; days.  By the early 1990s &quot;bullpens&quot; were becoming the rage, and the rest is history.<p>Another, &quot;QA was other people&quot;: it was other people, and not the can&#x27;t-make-it, under-performers, either.  Testing was a discipline in and of itself, with very experienced testers. They were often older programmers in their last 5-10 years which knew what kinds of corners and edges to think of.  That, too, was a just a fond memory by the early &#x27;90s.