Comment by chrisseaton

Maybe I'm cynical, but it seems like these people are in a farcical cycle of repeatedly inventing some new master theory of programming only to find it's actually a disaster a few years later and then to switch to something apparently diametrically opposed.

Of course, they have a book on sale to explain the new idea...

How much time was wasted and how many projects were damaged by the bad idea of UML and design up-front that they were pushing as hard as they could less than two decades ago? How many developers are being stressed by endless manic sprinting and micro-managing processes under the name of Agile?

Maybe they should stop? Or apply some actual science? Some of this in-group call themselves scientists but all they do is pontificate. I'm not really sure many of them spend much time actually programming.