Re: PG: Hackers and Painters

[James McCartney <address@hidden>]

It is also interesting that some of the same folks promoting the last 
bandwagon (UML) are now promoting on this one. Back then any objection 
was answered with "your up front design wasn't done well enough", now 
apparently you shouldn't have done any up front design. Just when 
they'd thought of every possible little doo dad you could dangle off of 
a diagram, they tossed the whole method in the trash. Got to sell more 
books and workshops..


On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 03:38 PM, Steve Dekorte wrote:

> I haven't tried XP personally, but I have noticed that every year or 
> so there seems to be a new "methodology" that is welcomed and promises 
> to deliver where the last one failed. This certainly sells books and 
> magazines and perhaps people(who add the appropriate magic words to 
> their resumes and learn the new "speak"), but the dogmatic adoption of 
> the specifics of each new methodology makes me suspicious.
>
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