Your favourite methodology is eXtremely gay

Good software is not an emergent property of the rules that govern the decentralized interactions of average programmers. Instead, good software results from good programmers, regardless of the methodology. Keep your software process from getting in the way of your best programmer.

When programming, you can never have too many comments. No, wait… when programming, you can never have too many jelly donuts. I always get those confused. The former is an example of a coding standard, which can be part of a programming methodology. The latter is an example of a software development process (albeit one that includes “now we will eat some jelly donuts” as a phase in the life cycle). In this chapter we discuss the difference between a software development process and a methodology, and why neither really matters.

This excerpt is from the book Lord of the Files, published by Thought Pilots.

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