Person

Lutz Prechelt

Software researchers studying developer experience, flow interruption, and productivity measurement limits.

Why this matters

Their work questions metric theater in engineering—when measurement distorts the craft it claims to improve.

Works

article

Role Clarity Deficiencies Can Wreck Agile Teams.

Barke, Helena, and Lutz Prechelt. "Role Clarity Deficiencies Can Wreck Agile Teams." *PeerJ Computer Science* 5 (2019): e241. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.241.

Related concepts

Concept

Agile

Agile is used in a software engineering sense. Agile refers to iterative development approaches that shorten feedback cycles, emphasize incremental delivery, and increase team-level ownership of ongoing change.

Related books

Book

Coupling

Cohesion, Consequence, and the Architecture of Responsibility

A practical framework for seeing where systems are tightly joined, where they drift apart, and how those coupling choices shape accountability over time.