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   New Software Development Theories

   

   Anonymous Coward, Apr 30th, 2002 @ 9:53am

   
   

   The problem I have with most of these theoretical approaches is that they work splendidly, assuming you work in an organization with intelligent, englightened management from the top down, a hiring process that guarantees only highly-skilled and intelligent programmers, all of whom share the same vision, etc.
   
   The trouble, of course, is that 99.99% of developers will never work in such an organization. I'd love to see a theory of software development that accounts for clueless management, incompetent H-1B guys from India who churn out bug-ridden spaghetti code, etc.

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   Wrong name

   

   Brian, Apr 30th, 2002 @ 3:50pm

   
   

   The problem with Extreme Programming is the name. Our clients hate to hear that you are doing "extreme" programming. They would prefer "reliable" or "good but inexpensive " or "just freaking get it done" programming. That is why many of us refer to this style of programming as "Test First" programming since one of the points is to make test code before writing the actual code.

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