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		QuercusMax 24 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trillions spent and big software projects are stil... Wasn't the Agile movement kicked off by a group of people writing payroll software for Chrysler? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Comprehensive_Compens... Payroll systems seem to be a massively complicated beast.

array_key_first 24 days ago | [–]

Arbitrary payroll is absurdly complicated. The trick is to not make it arbitrary - have a limited amount of stuff you do, and always have backdoors to manually pushing data through payroll.

franktankbank 24 days ago | [–]

You don't want to get me started on Agile.

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