Category: rules

Process over the individuals

April 9, 2006 by Artem

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools © agilemanifesto.org

Lately on a Russian programmer forum I've read a story about the usual victory of a process over the individuals.

One software development company had Windows and Unix stations. As a result from time to time the wrong endline characters leaked into the repository and caused the build breaks. There were two ways to overcome the problem:
1. To oblige everybody to check the files before the commit