Re: Familiarity and change

>  It turns out that all the influence you try to make on them is heavily
> topped by the influence of their peers. Simply - kids do like other 
> kids do,
> most of the time. They especially tend to copy the ones that are 
> regarded as
> cool (whatever "cool" is at some point in their childhood).
...
> I also started observing and noticing this. In my programming life 
> I've seen
> people that initially wrote pretty decent code start "melting into the
> environment" when thrown into some ugly legacy app - The Pickle Jar 
> Syndrome
> (I first found this name in Pragmatic Programmers book, and later on 
> I've
> found this in some G. Weinberg book I believe).

I helped my coworker do an Myers-Briggs on-line test today (English is 
not his native language)... he's an "E", which I've always known, and 
turns out to be "ENFJ". We get along very well, but I'm an INTJ - logic 
is king, and I don't follow the crowd; while he has a lot of scientific 
training, he feels that scientific method and logic are not that 
important: this is why my logical arguments have failed to persuade him 
to do various XP practices (like TDD) in a non-XP project. He did do 
them in an XP project, but he would rather conform to the overall 
company culture when not in an XP project.

--
C. Keith Ray
<http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/blog/index.html>
<http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/xpminifaq.html>
<http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/resume2.html>



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