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Wow if these were "classic" mistakes when this was written in 1996, they're positively antique now. We've made so much progress in being able to build more com
by lastofthemojito 4y ago
Wow if these were "classic" mistakes when this was written in 1996, they're positively antique now. We've made so much progress in being able to build more complex things and yet we're still humans often making similar mistakes again and again. Software is hard.
- jamesfinlayson 4y ago> #33: Silver-bullet syndrome > #34: Overestimated savings from new tools or methods Yep, time and time again.
- jbverschoor 4y agoMost software isn't hard at all
- cee_el123 4y agoSoftware is hard but more specifically it's human behavior - coordination and communication between contributors and teams to be exact
- denton-scratch 4y agoThey're all management mistakes, as far as I can see. And the repeated references to De Marco are telling.