Cargo cult software
Published November 25, 2003 by John
An interesting metaphor for doing process for process sake, Ned Batchelder writes about a couple of cases of cargo cult software engineering. Instead of using a process as a means to a higher goal, you think that the process is the higher goal. This has been the gripe about Big Methodologies as long as they’ve been griped about, but this analogy is an interesting one.
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