my experience too - if I am the guy for that piece of software (supporting testing, fixing prod issues etc.) then I have all the motivation in the world to make my work as simple and effective as possible. No place for fluff just because its in the vogue and 'big beards' of industry talk about it.
Measure of success of software is pretty straightforward in normal situation - users are happy using it, they don't care about technical details a bit. That and efficiency via simplicity above is how to do this for a decade, instead of building 1-man cathedrals with practically inevitable results
Measure of success of software is pretty straightforward in normal situation - users are happy using it, they don't care about technical details a bit. That and efficiency via simplicity above is how to do this for a decade, instead of building 1-man cathedrals with practically inevitable results