Dead Horse Theory in Software Projects
When to Admit Your Software Project is Doomed and Move On
"When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."
Book: The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
A classic book with teachings we keep ignoring
The programmer builds from pure thought-stuff: concepts and very flexible representations thereof. ... Because our ideas are faulty, we have bugs; hence our optimism is unjustified.
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