From 035b3551339410fd0e0d15fb5ce40821d6692aca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Morgan Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 09:30:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Initiate the book extract with a few quotes --- books/facts_fallacies_software_engineering.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/books/facts_fallacies_software_engineering.md b/books/facts_fallacies_software_engineering.md index 24133d9..0dd869e 100644 --- a/books/facts_fallacies_software_engineering.md +++ b/books/facts_fallacies_software_engineering.md @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ ## Quotes from Robert Glass: Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering ## Quotes from the wonderful book [Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83792.Facts_and_Fallacies_of_Software_Engineering) By [Robert Glass](http://www.robertlglass.com/) + +* People trump tools, techniques, and process. +* The problem is a culture that puts schedule conformance, using impossible schedules, above all else—a culture that values schedule so highly that there is no time to learn about new concepts. +* Runaway projects, at least those that stem from poor estimation, do not usually occur because the programmers did a poor job of programming. Those projects became runaways because the estimation targets to which they were being managed were largely unreal to begin with.