Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021)
><i>"I mean even at Google (on a different team) I was a "technical lead" in my 20s, and let me tell you, I had noooo business leading anything technical of any importance. But this is very common! We would never accept this in other fields. Would you live in a house built entirely by junior carpenters in their late 20s who built one or two houses that barely stood up? Would you drive cars designed and built by junior engineers?"</i><p>one of the strangest and most baffling things about the entire industry tbh. Like, would you ever expect a 25 year old guy to command a spaceship? Yet in software you have these weekly "I'm 40, is my life over" posts. In most disciplines people correctly acknowledge that there's a sweet spot of skill and experience that overlaps somewhere in your late 30s, 40s or even 50s, yet in software very often we recreate Lord of the Flies, leading to chaotic project management.