"This makes me want to read that other guy's blog! Sounds like an approach to software methodology that would come out of LessWrong." IIRC Isaac (the guy who i

"This makes me want to read that other guy's blog! Sounds like an approach to software methodology that would come out of LessWrong." IIRC Isaac (the guy who is replying to the Agile enthusiast on the thread) did a superb job of demolishing the agile "evidence" presented by Craig Larman and the article was first put up on Ron Jeffries's site for "fairness" but was later pulled (I guess because it was causing serious credibility issues for the methodology vendor folks). As he says, "Ron Jeffries challenged me to write specifically about Craig Larman's "evidence", and for a while what I wrote and Craig Larman's response was shown on www.xprogramming.com - but now it seems to be the only article going back through 1998 that isn't available from the website archives ;-) Doing that research taught me that I don't enjoy debunking - proximity to snake oil leaves a bad taste." "The Principle of Dispassionate Methodology: Don’t get your method advice from a method enthusiast. The best advice comes from people who care more of Wisdom.