On Bullshit is a classic tale of how our culture is full of bull shit at every turn.
Our project management, software development world the more so.
How people make stuff up, misuse concepts, misquote out of context, and other outcomes of our modern age of the internet.
The classic that happened yesterday was yet another misuse of the Standish Report, long debunked, to claim estimates p[rovide no value, in fact, estimates are the source of the reason why projects fail.
It's just Bull Shit is the only way to respond these days.
This small, short, easy to read book, will show you the proper response to these unsubstantiated conjecture, without having to resort to the BS term. There are other terms that can be used, of course, balderdashm claptrap, hokum, drivel, Buncombe, imposter, and quackery
When you hear what is clearly nonsense, based on no principles, no practices, no processes used to test the claim, no evidence other than personal anecdotes, and the willful ignorance of those principles, processes, and practices, and even more willful ignorance of the - it's just
Humbug: deceptive misrepresentations, short of lying, especially by pretentious word or deed, of somebody' own thoughts, feelings, or attitudes - The Prevalence of Humbug, Max Black, Cornell University Press, 1985
