In the following excerpts from Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, Robert Glass weighs in on some cherished beliefs of the programming profession:
Fact 1: The most important factor is software work is not the tools and techniques used by the programmers, but rather the quality of the programmers themselves... (read more)
Fallacy 1: You can't manage what you can't measure...(read more)
Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, "Fact 1" and "Fallacy 1," c. 2003 Pearson Education, Inc.