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TLDR: > The bad news is that there is no best approach > to software development. The article is mostly rants about all the current "best practices" ever
by chimi 14y ago
TLDR:
> The bad news is that there is no best approach
> to software development.
The article is mostly rants about all the current "best practices" everything from NASA strategies to TDD, DDD, lean, agile, etc. He thinks you should avoid dogma and be pragmatic.
- k_bx 14y agoMy version of TLDR: Article is good-written irony-style novel about relation between developers and "best practices" out there. Author is making a high-level (a bit sarcastic) review of bunch of methodologies like NASA strategies, TDD, BDD, DDD, Toyota Kaban, Scrum etc. There's no point just reading TLDR, go and read the article itself.
- gilini 14y agoThat's a very loose interpretation of what the author meant, IMO. Actually, pragmatism in this industry leads to a series of different interpretations. Avoiding dogma is a no-brainer, there's absolutely no advantage on being dogmatic in software development. But the pragmatism part, I think it's OK as long as being pragmatic doesn't mean carelessly building stuff without putting much thinking beforehand, in whichever methodology you chose to follow. I do believe in testing, not just software testing, but testing in general. Let's try and test the better set of methodologies and techniques for our scenario, mashup stuff together and come up with our very own "dogma".
- zenogais 14y agoSo another reiteration of "The Mythical Man Month" theses.