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People have not really changed?

Posted by: Venkat Subramaniam on August 4, 2005

I was visiting the Cliff Dwelling in Manitou Springs, Colorado last weekend.
It was amazing to climb and walk through the ancient structure.

At the museum they had a display of a cave art with the following words next to it:
?We can safely assume that the art created during prehistoric times had meaning to its creator.
The symbols may have had spiritual significance; however, when the creator walked away the
meaning was lost forever.?

As I read through this, it brought chuckle. You can replace the words art => design,
prehistoric => development, symbols => work, spiritual => business and you get something so familiar:

We can safely assume that the design created during development times had meaning to its creator. The
work may have had business significance; however, when the creator walked away the meaning was lost
forever.

Sorry, I have to learn to control my mind from wandering into such thoughts?

Venkat Subramaniam

About Venkat Subramaniam

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.

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