"Perhaps--and this is pure conjecture--the biggest problem the industry has is that people rarely take a process or methodology and apply it as written,"
Hmmm. Perhaps the biggest problem the industry has is that processes and methodologies are written by people who are poor programmers?
Think about it. No methodology is written by great programmers, great managers or great product designers. Why should people use them "as written"?
Taking all the "agile" methodologies as an example, All the signatories of the Agile Manifesto put together never coded up any great software. The same applies for CMMi or RUP or whatever.
XP starts from a failed project at Chrysler. They are essentially process consultants who are good at thinking up processes. Implementing their reccomendations "as written" would be insane, just as trying to run a company as per the prescriptions in latest management fad book as written would be insane.
Come to think of it there are similarities to management books. Comparatively few of them are written by great businessmen. Most of them have written by people who've never run a business in their lives.
I don't get it. Logically no one should pay any attention to such methodologies or books. But people do, to the point where software methodologies and "Who moved My cheese" books are multi billion dollar industries.
Hmmm. Perhaps the biggest problem the industry has is that processes and methodologies are written by people who are poor programmers?
Think about it. No methodology is written by great programmers, great managers or great product designers. Why should people use them "as written"?
Taking all the "agile" methodologies as an example, All the signatories of the Agile Manifesto put together never coded up any great software. The same applies for CMMi or RUP or whatever.
XP starts from a failed project at Chrysler. They are essentially process consultants who are good at thinking up processes. Implementing their reccomendations "as written" would be insane, just as trying to run a company as per the prescriptions in latest management fad book as written would be insane.
Come to think of it there are similarities to management books. Comparatively few of them are written by great businessmen. Most of them have written by people who've never run a business in their lives.
I don't get it. Logically no one should pay any attention to such methodologies or books. But people do, to the point where software methodologies and "Who moved My cheese" books are multi billion dollar industries.