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Another thought. Most companies have absolutely no idea how to select the technology. A lot of people that are in position to decide don't have all that much hands on experience with the new technology and so they will decide based on other factors like whether his manager would like or would like not see new technology, what other companies are doing, etc.

Another example is "Agile". Everybody is doing it yet I still wait to see a single company that understands what the term means. My current boss is big promoter of "Agile" which in his language is synonym to "Scrum". Yet when asked he has never heard of Pheonix Project, The Goal, theory of constrains or basically any theory at all. So what the people are doing is fighting fires almost 100% of the time with not much project work done for the effort and absolutely no improvements. Yet, because everybody complies to do daily standups and Jira updates we are 100% agile.

Don't even get me started on devops...



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