Re: [extremeprogramming] The principle behind How Test-Driven Development Works

Are there any development or execution problems in any human endeavor that cannot be described as primarily people problems? Couldn’t you say that about management errors, sports coaching errors, government errors, etc.?

I don’t understand how that helps. 

> On Nov 20, 2019, at 7:39 AM, Ron Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I wonder how we'd come down on "Software is primarily a people problem rather than a technical problem".
> 
>> On Nov 20, 2019, at 2:08 AM, Dave Nicolette <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> you write, "Software development is a people problem, not a technical
>> problem," I hope you're exaggerating to make a point. If software
>> development were *not* in any sense a technical problem, and were
>> *only* a people problem, then you could put a bunch of naked people on
>> a desert island with no technology, and they could produce software.
>> Such is the power of the word, "not."
> 
> 
> Ron Jeffries
> ronjeffries.com <http://ronjeffries.com/>
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> 
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