[websiteguy]

(disclosure - I am the author of this article)

"At the end of the day hire good ppl. They'll do the right thing most of the time." - absolutely agree.

No system is perfect, ours is not. You need to decide what is important to your organization and emphasize it - they way we do things here at TA has its downsides, but overall, it works very well for us and what we want to do. The benefits for us significantly outweigh the drawbacks.

It is critical to have a boss who understands how software development works, and that mistakes get made. If anything, my boss wants my team to make more mistakes than we do :-)