It's kind of funny how the Agile Manifesto launched a whole cottage industry seemingly with the goal to punish software developers with some trite phrases that all said the same thing, "trust your people".
That basic message of course appealed to a lot of software developers, who could only dream of having real autonomy, but they should have recognized the lack of supporting evidence, room for broad interpretation, and the process dollars to be made.
The look of the composition of the...
...authors and realized it had the same feel as things that had come before like UML. A bunch of methodologists with a product to sell looking to team up to increase profits by selling to developers who were of a "code is king!" mindset.
When you can't prove or disprove any processes, then it's easy to get people to buy into new ones.
Maybe someday software development will become science, based on measurement, but until then we'll just be suckers for that next silver bullet.
#DumbAllOver
