I made the mistake when I was younger of reading everything I could on software engineering. Now I am stuck with knowing the best development path while watching the software development turn away every time they come to it in their continuous running in circles.
Here's the two points of failure in the software community:
1. Failing to raise the level of abstraction at which the software is written.
2. Failing to measure development using common metrics. FPA isn't perfect, but it beats nothing.