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On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 23:26:48 +0100, D wrote:


> I have this book somewhere. I think it was mostly common sense with
> added fluff. Didn't feel like a revelation to me. But I guess the book
> was the "agile" of its times.

A few years back we had a presentation on 'pair programming'. It hit a 
snag when the presenters were only familiar with Apple products and all we 
could cough up was a Mac Mini we used to compile an iPhone app. The actual 
programmers in the audience grabbed any free food laying around and 
exfiltrated.
 
> I have no idea really about the companies I worked for, except the
> common household global IT companies, which still exist in various
> forms.

They wrote a book about one of them.

https://www.amazon.com/Sprague-Electric-Electronics-Giants-after/dp/
150338781X

'Sprague Electric: An Electronics Giant's Rise, Fall, and Life after 
Death'

Bell Labs came up with the tantalum capacitor but Sprague was the first to 
make them commercially viable. I did quite a bit of work for the tantalum 
plant in Sanford ME.  Even then it was starting to fall apart. I can't 
remember the name but I believe a French firm was getting involved.

Other companies survived but not the division I was involved with like the 
GE copier plant in Ft. Wayne. Some like DEC and GTE/Sylvania are just 
gone.

Some of the changes were a little rough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins_Aerospace

At least the name of the company I worked for lives on even if it's dba as 
UTC or Collins now.

https://www.helihub.com/tag/simmonds-precision-products/


It's hard to keep track. My sister-in-law said the company name on the 
pension checks kept changing but as long as the checks arrived all was 
good. I think it all fell into the Northrup Grumman black hole in the end.