djcb comments on [LINK] Signalling and irrationality in Software Development - Less Wrong

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Comment author: djcb 25 November 2011 01:46:34PM 2 points [-]

Good point...

I found many of the books I read quite bad, full of hot air etc.; there's a few lessons to be learned from the classics (like Brooks etc.), but I'm not really convinced about many of the new stuff (agile, tdd etc), after seeing it in practice. It seems a combination of good existing ideas + ideas which are unproven at best.