For me, one of the things I learned early on is that there are a lot of salesmen in the software world that want to sell you something. Whether its tooling, met

For me, one of the things I learned early on is that there are a lot of salesmen in the software world that want to sell you something. Whether its tooling, methodology, classes or whatever. Cargo culting is rampant and everyone wants to sell you their version of a hammer to nail down any problems with your software. This doesn't make them necessarily wrong or not have valuable things to bring to the table but much like everything else you should be careful not to fall into the trap of assuming that it works for them, therefore it works for you.