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I have been re-reading Zed Shaw's Essays and Rants because I feel in large part that the Software Industry has lot its way from its roots in Computer Science and Management Science. It is not a situation where one party is to blame and everyone else skates as there is plenty of blame to lay at everyone's door.
I think Zed Shaw's call to get back to measuring what works and what does not and making it a 'Free Market' by divulging statistical data of both successful projects and failures is a good first step. Where it might not be possible to submit commercial statistical project data one can obviously start some open source projects and still supply statistical data of project successes and failures.
I do not know about you but I originally entered computer science because it was fun to build new computer programs to learn new things and solve new problems. Not that corporate business problems are not interesting, but we have to take responsibility and stat caring about our craft and the art again. We have to get back to a measuring scientific basis rather than this vendor marketing muddle speak that only serves to increase vendor revenue at expense of the programmer.
I think my favorite essay is the one titled, "The C2I2 Hypothesis", as it matches up developer processes with management processes. I wish Zed would write more essays they are valuable.
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