I think PoP is anodyne, and the handholding took away any feeling of risk. FC2 I love. Played on hard, just getting to the required map point is brutal but always interesting due to the savagely smart, hard to see soldiers at checkpoints, road patrols, etc. It forces you to think, proceed with caution, and engage the enemy in a real seeming way. If you get gunned down, you are going to retry, and that half hour of terrain doesnt seem boring, none of it does, because the scenery, enemies, and weaponry, are just fun to hang with.

Yep,
'Experts' barely exist. I am one. And I'm not that good at all to be honest, I can barely code a 'hello world' but I've still been wheeled out countless times to point out password lengths arent up to snuff etc.
But I've got seven years experience and I know quite a lot of other things worth knowing, and I've seen some pretty sloppy practice and kicked it into touch.
Still, this book sounds cock. I mean utter cock. The review makes it sound like it is equally as worthless as me, on a bad day, trying to risk assess a three tiered app running on Websphere. They appear not to have a point, and to focus on the now dead legend of management buying the silver bullet / marketing / one stop shop is well out of date. There isn't a manager out there who is dumb enough to believe that you pay money and this crap goes away. They know it's a combination of process, people, and systems in concert that gets you out of the shit, because it's true, and because it is their language, that of business. The book sounds like a squint-eyed techie moan, from people who don't get let out of the back room to talk to the execs very much. This book sounds so far out from reality it may as well be set on the moon, and populated by Sea Monkeys. If they want to sell a new school, they could at least take the trouble to learn the 'old ' one first, instead of passing off vacuous soundbites about China and Hedgehogs or something.