* The quality of a book is not directly proportional to it's thickness/weight/# of pages.
* the idea that productivity increases emerge from the interaction of a number of different practices, and not one single "silver bullet" sounds like common sense to me, not snake oil.
* The ideas behind XP Explained were not hashed together on the weekend, they came out of years of experience in smalltalk projects, culminating in the C3 project at Chrysler. Even if you don't agree with XP you have to accept that a hell of a lot more work went into the genesis of the book than say your average "Windows XP Unleashed in 21 days (for dummies)".
* you compare a seminal book in the software engineering/methodology field (regardless of whether you agree with it) unfavourably with a computer game? Huh? I like computer games, but there's a hell of a lot of trash that gets pumped out in that industry. Not a very good comparison in my opinion.
With all due respect ergo98 you sound fairly uninformed. I don't really understand why this post was moderated up as informative.
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a few points:
* The quality of a book is not directly proportional to it's thickness/weight/# of pages.
* the idea that productivity increases emerge from the interaction of a number of different practices, and not one single "silver bullet" sounds like common sense to me, not snake oil.
* The ideas behind XP Explained were not hashed together on the weekend, they came out of years of experience in smalltalk projects, culminating in the C3 project at Chrysler. Even if you don't agree with XP you have to accept that a hell of a lot more work went into the genesis of the book than say your average "Windows XP Unleashed in 21 days (for dummies)".
* you compare a seminal book in the software engineering/methodology field (regardless of whether you agree with it) unfavourably with a computer game? Huh? I like computer games, but there's a hell of a lot of trash that gets pumped out in that industry. Not a very good comparison in my opinion.
With all due respect ergo98 you sound fairly uninformed. I don't really understand why this post was moderated up as informative.