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I've worked on some successful projects, and a lot of train wrecks. It really comes down to how it's managed. A couple of projects were successful is spite of management (dumb luck), and others were doomed from the start.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Kent Sharkey wrote: have “built careers on doing following the wrong thing manager”.
FTFY
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Hence why I'm not a developer but an engineer. If your "manager" writes code, run, run as far and fast as you can.
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This quote from the article is especially interesting:
"We have a situation where taking an entirely ad hoc approach to software arguably leads to more successful outcomes than traditional approaches."
Does this mean no management is better than poor management?
Could you argue that no development is better than poor development?
Perhaps...
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When will the madness of the need for ever increasing hardware specs stop? When will enough be enough? "I don't know why you gotta be so undemanding. I want more"
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"In the midnight hour, babe, I want more more more." -- Billy Idol
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Kent Sharkey wrote: When will enough be enough?
Can it run Crysis ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Can it run Crysis ?
The new standard should be Fallout 4 right now. 
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Well, my hardware is good enough for it in Ultra ( after upping memory and buying a new graphic card !!!  )
I'd rather be phishing!
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I had to buy a new graphics card as well, as the one I had in there was a little outdated a couple years ago. Now I get an FPS up to about 100, with the lowest dips around 90 (144Hz monitor).
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When apps go back back to using 640K.
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You sir, have good taste in music.
( My wife does not approve and I feel my YouTube privileges may soon be rescinded.* )
- I tried to tell her about Marx and Engels, God an angels
I don't really know what for - but she looks good in ribbons.
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Developers will get access to advanced tools for facial recognition, speech recognition and more. I am totally adding this to my next app: "Smile, or I won't save your data!"
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Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University have hacked together a proof-of-concept smartwatch that uses electromagnetic noise profiles to detect, in real-time, when the wearer is touching an item. The group calls the idea "EM-Sense." "We all need the human touch"
Or I suppose I could have gone with, "Can't touch this"
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Shoot, they'll do anything to keep me away from Snow White. 
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Daily Mail - Aged Disney Princesses[^]
At 92, don't you think she's a little too old for you? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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As the Brother's Grimm published it in 1812, he'd probably have to dig her up first 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Or the unforgettable doors song;
Yeah! Come on, come on, come on, come on
Now touch me, baby
Can't you see that I am not afraid?
What was that promise that you made?
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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How about "Invisible Touch" by Genesis?
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Scrum while great in theory is in practice a really flawed process of creating software. Scrum is iterative waterfall. Scrum is process hell. "My worries seem so very small with my waterfall."
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He needs to test his proofreader; that rant should not have shipped in that state. 
Some Doofus wrote: Scrum is iterative waterfall
Yes, hence the term "rapid development".  A rapid is a series of small waterfalls, duh. It's why white water rafting is so much more popular than going over waterfalls in barrels.
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Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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