Software Best Practices

This reminds me of the article published years ago about the "CMM Immaturity Model" that went from Level 0 to Level -2. I agree that just paying lip service to a set of practices without even trying to ape them is even worse than what I described in "Cargo Cult Software Engineering."...

Hey! You bet there would be hundreds and thousands of software engineering practitioners who would have made similar observations. Most of the times the focus and the rush is on meeting deadlines. And in this rush, software engineering processes, visual modellings, unit tests, reviews..all go for a toss...