[abc-1]

Surprised these people had to iterate and run these experiments. I thought all of this was common knowledge in books. Maybe it was an experience before this was common knowledge, but it’s not uncommon to see “painfully figure something out instead of cracking open a book, write a blog post about it like it’s some new found knowledge”.

[hanifbbz]

Could you be more specific about which book and chapter talked about this problem and how the solution was different or similar?

[cenny]

Of the top of my head I can think of Extreme Programming Explained, The Art of Agile Development, Software Teaming, The Pragmatic Programmer.