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Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior
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Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior

by Tom DeMarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, Steve McMenamin, James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson
July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
5h 22m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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10. True Believer

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An individual embraces a school of thought as gospel. Even slight deviations from the canon are considered sacrilege.

Nearly all of the popular methods in software engineering arose from practitioners’ experience, not from basic research. People were motivated to write down what worked for them on their projects, and the experience got transferred from a small group to many others. By communicating with many of the leading process designers, we know that most of them concede that (1) their methods were developed for certain domains or project sizes and (2) their methods have never been expected to work exactly as described for ...

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ISBN: 9780133492286