Listen everybody. This thread is hilarious but not very professional. I think most of the people on this thread are hardcore programmers and most of us came to some conclusions: 1) it is not the idea that has value, it is the execution 2) the success of a project is strongly correlated with the skills of the programmers who work on it, the time and love they put in it. 3) it does not really matter how much money is put into a project, if the programmers are not good, and if they do not care about the project, it will not succeed.
Is there any value in management and or of software development methods? I think there is. I am not saying which method is best because there is not one size fits all but good programmers in my experience are self disciplined. They follow a methodology to keep track of bugs and systematically fix them. Their methodology may not exactly match named ones (agile or waterfall or other) but it is a methodology. Massimo --
