The silver's all around you
This is a response to Peter Kretzman’s coherent and insightful blog post, “No silver bullets. Really!” You should go read that first. I’ll wait.
Peter’s post, in turn, is a response to the classic paper, “No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering” by Fred Brooks, in which Brooks says that complexity in software development is essential, not accidental. You should read that too.
Now here’s what I think.