For this study we trained three sets of people in common coding techniques, they were instructed to think in terms of âseparation of concernsâ(TM), âabstractionâ(TM) and to âwrite unit testsâ(TM) - and the results indicated massive demotivation in the face of of an actual programming task in a team of very experienced programmers....

Most people donâ(TM)t really understand most of what they say or think. Ask a manager what Agile is. Ask a developer what REST is or browse your codebase for the ten different implementations of something called a strategy pattern or a factory pattern. Ask yourself, honestly, how much do you really understand about things you talk about or follow? How much do you really understand that diet youâ(TM)re on or how to run the country that you think is making so many mistakes? Our brains fill in all these blanks for us, all the time. We go through life imagining that we have a coherent, complete view of whatâ(TM)s going on around us but we see little and understand less. No matter which methodology we try to push, very few people will really grasp it. Most people will read about it i their lunchbreak or hear about it at some pizza and beer fuelled âdev meetupâ(TM) or maybe even do a course in it and then steamroll it into their organisation and write âimplemented [some methodology]â(TM) on their six month review, get a gold star.