[Joeri]

But that’s just because managing software development is about managing people, and the behavior of people can’t be captured by logical rules. In other words, I doubt that there is something that can or even should be solved here.

I think this quote says it best: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

[bri3d]

I feel like between this and the sibling comment my point was misunderstood - to clarify, I wasn't trying to say "our industry is unsolved but should be solved," rather, "there is no 'solve' for these sorts of things which aren't even 'problems' so much as difference of opinion, even outside of the technology industry, and within the technology industry there is an even greater breadth of opinion around product and project scheduling and management" - so, the linked article is triply ridiculous.