Author's Bio: Anton Mamaenko

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Methodologies are text-books, not religious texts

Here we go. Another team to manage. It always starts with the same pattern: engineers are cautious to their new manager and they have a good reason to be.
...And the methodology practitioners are teachers rather than priests. That is - its no magic how they are working in real life.
Each of them - from RUP to XP - are thought-out combinations of ideas that work in concert.
The articles like "Top 7 programmers bad habits", or similar "Top 10 errors", "Top 23 tit-bis", etc. are no harm, of course. But these are too shallow, unlike books on coding practices, such as The pragmatic programmer, or The Mythical Man-Month they resemble Grand-Mother's advice rather than sound technology.

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