Software Best Practices

This reminds me of the article published years ago about the "CMM Immaturity Model" that went from Level 0 to Level -2. I agree that just paying lip service to a set of practices without even trying to ape them is even worse than what I described in "Cargo Cult Software Engineering."...

I don't think the original poster was talking about people aping XP in a Cargo Cult style. Rather the lip service is just that. They're not even pretending to follow the practices. They're just adopting the name. However, I think exactly the same could be said for CMM in many cases. And that's...

Hey! You bet there would be hundreds and thousands of software engineering practitioners who would have made similar observations. Most of the times the focus and the rush is on meeting deadlines. And in this rush, software engineering processes, visual modellings, unit tests, reviews..all go for a toss...

We see this commonly in the U.S. too. In fact I've joked that this explains the real difference between the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s: In the 1980s developers paid lip service to structured methods, but really just hacked. In the 1990s developers paid lip service to object oriented methods but really...