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Re:Why don’t software development methodologies work? by robotys on Monday February 10, 2014 @07:34PM (#7214844)
This remind me that business is pure gamble, and business people is bad gambler. They want to play but do not want to lose and if they lose they want to blame somebody.

Managing ego and heart is harder than managing a project i think.

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Re:Why don’t software development methodologies work? by gizzlon on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @05:20AM (#7216838)
The Second Law of Consulting: No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem.

Gerald Weinberg

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg#The_secrets_of_...

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/01/no-matter-what-they...

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Re:Why don’t software development methodologies work? by gizzlon on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @05:24AM (#7216851)
haha, I love this guy..

Asking for efficiency and adaptability in the same program is like asking for a beautiful and modest wife. Although beauty and modesty have been known to occur in the same woman, we'll probably have to settle for one or the other. At least that's better than neither.

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Re:Why don’t software development methodologies work? by _glass on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @09:15AM (#7217666)
No haha, this is just plain sexist and wrong. One of this wonky generalizations and why we don't have real software engineering yet.
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