Greg Wilson – What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True

Greg Wilson – What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True from CUSEC on Vimeo.

The talk is rather long but is definitely worth watching.

The author talks about:

• Studies and references of “well-known” information concerning software development. Which are lacking.
• Time estimates and that all techniques and applications to calculate time needed for specific tasks are worthless.
• When refactoring is useless.
• How software complexity increases with adding more features.
• Code metrics don’t work.
• And how we need to ask for the sources of information we get.