[gilini]

That's a very loose interpretation of what the author meant, IMO. Actually, pragmatism in this industry leads to a series of different interpretations.

Avoiding dogma is a no-brainer, there's absolutely no advantage on being dogmatic in software development. But the pragmatism part, I think it's OK as long as being pragmatic doesn't mean carelessly building stuff without putting much thinking beforehand, in whichever methodology you chose to follow.

I do believe in testing, not just software testing, but testing in general. Let's try and test the better set of methodologies and techniques for our scenario, mashup stuff together and come up with our very own "dogma".