This seems like an appropriate thread in which to mention Glenn Vandenburg's presentation on "Real Software Engineering". He's made this presentation several ti

This seems like an appropriate thread in which to mention Glenn Vandenburg's presentation on "Real Software Engineering". He's made this presentation several times over the last year; I happened to see it at the Ruby Hoedown in Nashville this summer. Highly recommended. "Software engineering as it’s taught in universities simply doesn’t work. It doesn’t produce software systems of high quality, and it doesn’t produce them for low cost. Sometimes, even when practiced rigorously, it doesn’t produce systems at all. That’s odd, because in every other field, the term ‘engineering’ is reserved for methods that work." http://confreaks.net/videos/282-lsrc2010-real-software-engineering http://confreaks.net/videos/282-lsrc2010-real-software-engin...