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I hate to keep pointing out one person’s posts, but Lidor is a great writer and says stuff so much more eloquently then I ever could. This time he writes about how we are all afraid to speak up and say what is really in our hearts about how we do software development. We know we should be trying something different, or stopping some technique that is more cost than benefit, but we just go along with what everyone else says, afraid of being labeled “uncooperative, pessimistic, or simply detached from the business reality”, or worse.

When you see a trendy technique that everyone thinks is the silver bullet, but somehow you just don’t see the benefit, speak up. Be that naive little boy who doesn’t know any better and point out that the emperor is naked.