On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:57:29PM -0300, VICTOR TARABOLA CORTIANO wrote: > The computer industry is driven by fashion instead of quality...
Not really. In all seriousness, the software development industry is driven by companies that believe that deep down, software developers are like brick layers: some number are incompetent, and of the competent ones some are faster/better than others, but mostly they are interchangeable. You want a brick layer then you hire one for the standard price. This notion they have is false, but there's a whole industry that sells to them based on their misconceptions. This naturally leads to whole new methodologies every decade or so (long enough for the new thing to become a buzzword, get adopted everywhere, and then for companies to discover that projects still fail and the software still sucks and costs a fortune to develop). The alternative is to recognize that programmers are not interchangeable, and that up front effort in selecting the right people and providing them with a good environment makes far more different that going with whatever methodology is the current Big Thing. That's backed up by studies and written about in books, but most managers do not want to hear it. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
