Back to Basics - Are we really forgetting?

I had few discussions with few people in January and was surprised. People are slowly forgetting S/W Engineering concepts. Or what we learn in college. Companies like IBM building new products day in, day out and people are using it. But seems as a community or professional we forgot few basic things which we need to spread as they come handy when every day.
So here comes back to basics series. In this series I will highlight issues like Debugging why it is an art. What does it take to make a product successful. Why to follow a specific model? What are new tools which can help us in daily working environment or using all these big applications what other tools we need to have.
How maintaince can be easier if we follow few simple rules i.e. "Back to Basics - BTB Series".
So watch this space for initial set in few days.

-Ritesh
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