I wonder if a lot of what we read about software development methodology is to blame for this? I would expect that individual and freelance developers, and deve

I wonder if a lot of what we read about software development methodology is to blame for this? I would expect that individual and freelance developers, and developers at small companies, are more likely to practice "cowboy programming" -- use frameworks, glue them together, write code, handle (most) edge cases, exercise the most basic of best practices -- while larger companies, like Motorola, are more likely to practice something that a manager read about in a book or a consultant sold them on -- "waterfall development", "test-driven development", etc. (Not that I have anything against those methods, but they would tend to slow down development in a corporate environment.)