The Psychological Reasons for Software Project Failures

This is an opinion article about the state of affairs in the software engineering field. It discusses the real challenge and the real duty of a programmer. It divides programmers into four categories: Intelligent, Bandits, Helpless and Stupid with two additional categories of Naive and Ignorant. It talks about how a programmer must be familiar with a particular domain is not only able to code but actually to create solutions. And it touches on the failure of agile software development.