fungibility

There is a tendency in dis­cus­sions of staffing and org­ani­za­tional structure to speak of people, especially soft­ware en­gi­neers, as being fun­gible—or not. What an ex­ceedingly unpleasant choice of words! People are not fungible. People fungibility is an inappropriate concept. Let’s see how the un­der­pin­ning issues can be dis­cussed more fruit­ful­ly. What is Fungibility? Fungibility is […]