Thoughts about Methods, Process and Models taken from the book Microsoft Object Thinking by David West. (See chapter 6) All methods are someone else’s idea about what you should do when you develop software. It may be useful, from time to time, to borrow from those ideas and integrate them into your own style. It is essential, however, to transcend any method, even your own idiosyncratic method, and “just do it.” Software development is like riding a surfboard—there is no process that will assure...