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Agree that this statement is way off, but the rest of the article is hardly "nonsensical." Did you stop reading here?

• beryilma 3y ago
  No. The full article does not make sense. As an example, I have never seen, in my 23 years of professional software development experience, overconfidence be a reason for a project's failure.
  • Tainnor 3y ago
    You've never seen the "we can rewrite this legacy system in a year" mistake? Because I've seen this at least 4 different times.
    • beryilma 3y ago
      Good point. I've seen something similar to it, but it was a failure of the management, not developers. The management says "we painted ourselves into a corner and now we need to replace this legacy system with a modern implementation. It shouldn't take more a couple of years". The rewrite took almost 10 years to complete. If anything, the part that I would call as developers' failure was the inability to push back with realistic timelines.
      • Tainnor 3y ago
        I've seen it play out differently, with developers (especially seniors) pushing for their favourite tech. "We're gonna make the new system event based with Kafka", etc.
        • injb 3y ago
          I literally just had to shoot this exact idea down this sprint.