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