Whoa there. You are being way too rude and aggressive about this. Please help keep HN civil; that's much more important than any argument. Peopleware is a clas

Whoa there. You are being way too rude and aggressive about this. Please help keep HN civil; that's much more important than any argument. Peopleware is a classic, or at least many software professionals regard it that way, but it is a classic of folklore rather than science. Here is an example that I asked one of the authors about years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=1995716 https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=1995716. The research literature itself on these matters is extremely flimsy. There is not even any empirical evidence for the stuff we all agree on, such as that version control is good (http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=451 http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=451) let alone on the controversial points such as productivity. Incidentally, how do you measure productivity? I'd be happy to be wrong about this, though. Perhaps you could cite a study or two that really does hold up to scrutiny?