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Allan Kelly

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Allan Kelly writes allan's blog, a personal blog at allankelly.blogspot.com about programming and business. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Software has diseconomies of scale, not economies of scale”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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8mentions?
8HN people?
2010–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for its post 'Agile is Dead', which takes a view on the state of agile methods and project management. The one comment discusses the post's tone and its grasp of agile practice.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Software has diseconomies of scale, not economies of scale
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-12-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. Oh, look. Another PMP proponent who didn't _WANT_ any agile practice success rushing to quote everyone who has reflected on the fact that it isn't perfect. This guy kills his credibility with the "let's hold a rave on the grave of Agile, I'll bring the Molly" attitude. Also, he clearly never learned the secret sauce of "agile" that Scrum and modern proponents only pay lip service to because it doesn't "sell well": F…

    Comment linking /2015/10/software-has-diseconomies-of-scale-not.html

    on “Agile is Dead”
  2. Submitted Software has diseconomies of scale, not economies of scale as a story · 162 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Software Development Has Diseconomies of Scale as a story · 138 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Can you afford reusable code? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Diseconomies of Scale in Software Development as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Software has diseconomies of scale – not economies of scale as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Software Has Diseconomies of Scale as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Nightmare on Agile Street – Agile worst practices, funnily explained as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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