The rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab (2002)
&gt; The management world has tried to develop software engineering processes that allow people to be plugged into them like interchangeable components.<p>I&#x27;ve wondered about this a lot lately. It&#x27;s not limited to software engineering only, you see it in other creative&#x2F;human domains as well. Media production. Teaching. So on.<p>But it&#x27;s made me wonder, why doesn&#x27;t the equation ever invert:<p>&quot;The &lt;fill_in_the_blank&gt; world has tried to develop _management_ processes that allow people to be plugged into them like interchangeable components.&quot;<p>Why has management never come under the scrutiny of &quot;one size fits all&quot; and the subsequent salary&#x2F;headcount reduction?