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Most software professionals have never seen a successful software development project, continuous delivery evangelist Dave Farley said, and have “built careers on doing the wrong thing”. All this time, we've been living a lie?
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And in almost all cases, I can point the finger at management for being the cause of the failure. I'm not joking.
Marc
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Was about to write the same. I've worked on several successful projects which were killed at the last minute. Then there are the projects which were going along just fine until management "fixed" them.
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I'm not sure if I'd like to blame management for badly written code... 
Although I do have a manager who also writes code 
Seriously though, I know some baaaad programmers...
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They do exist, yes. But a bad programmer is not so dangerous for a project as a bad manager
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Depends on the project.
In the starting phase, yes, a manager can make it or break it.
But when a project is successful and gets bigger bad code tends to slow the project down and ultimately make the client lose trust in the product.
I've worked on relatively small projects where you fixed X and Y stopped working.
Additionally, each fix cost you hours of looking through code, fitting in a solution that is far from optimal, and debugging everything to see if everything still works.
In the end it cost the company too much money and we stopped the project.
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Well stated!
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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I once worked on a big project that was going great until the evangelists showed up (and said we were doing it all wrong.)
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I've seen big fails and big wins, and I reckon my "batting average" at this stage would be a 10:1 value to cost ratio - I'm pretty sure that's way above the bar for most careers (with the possible exception of teaching).
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I've worked on some successful projects, and a lot of train wrecks. It really comes down to how it's managed. A couple of projects were successful is spite of management (dumb luck), and others were doomed from the start.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Kent Sharkey wrote: have “built careers on doing following the wrong thing manager”.
FTFY
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Hence why I'm not a developer but an engineer. If your "manager" writes code, run, run as far and fast as you can.
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This quote from the article is especially interesting:
"We have a situation where taking an entirely ad hoc approach to software arguably leads to more successful outcomes than traditional approaches."
Does this mean no management is better than poor management?
Could you argue that no development is better than poor development?
Perhaps...
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When will the madness of the need for ever increasing hardware specs stop? When will enough be enough? "I don't know why you gotta be so undemanding. I want more"
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"In the midnight hour, babe, I want more more more." -- Billy Idol
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Kent Sharkey wrote: When will enough be enough?
Can it run Crysis ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Can it run Crysis ?
The new standard should be Fallout 4 right now. 
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Well, my hardware is good enough for it in Ultra ( after upping memory and buying a new graphic card !!!  )
I'd rather be phishing!
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I had to buy a new graphics card as well, as the one I had in there was a little outdated a couple years ago. Now I get an FPS up to about 100, with the lowest dips around 90 (144Hz monitor).
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When apps go back back to using 640K.
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You sir, have good taste in music.
( My wife does not approve and I feel my YouTube privileges may soon be rescinded.* )
- I tried to tell her about Marx and Engels, God an angels
I don't really know what for - but she looks good in ribbons.
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Developers will get access to advanced tools for facial recognition, speech recognition and more. I am totally adding this to my next app: "Smile, or I won't save your data!"
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Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University have hacked together a proof-of-concept smartwatch that uses electromagnetic noise profiles to detect, in real-time, when the wearer is touching an item. The group calls the idea "EM-Sense." "We all need the human touch"
Or I suppose I could have gone with, "Can't touch this"
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