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This is an amazing list, and really highlights how much we take on trust in this industry: do X for good/better/best outcomes.

Taking a step back I wonder: if there did emerge clear, incontrovertible evidence that doing X led to better outcomes, how many teams would actually adopt it?

And how many would dismiss those findings regardless?

In these modern times I suspect we'd see a far higher rejection rate than 10-years-ago me would've anticipated.



Most of those questions (e.g. TDD) are highly context dependent. The fact we blithely ignore context is why some of them are controversial, I think.

But yes, we do take too much on trust.




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