Right from Jeff's blog: Software Engineering: Dead?

I was utterly floored when I read this new IEEE article by Tom DeMarco (pdf).
See if you can tell why.

He quotes DeMarco, "I'm gradually coming to the conclusion that software engineering is an idea whose time has come and gone".

Further, "What DeMarco seems to be saying -- and, at least, what I am definitely saying -- is that control is ultimately illusory on software development projects."

I am writing these lines without context to invoke reading of the related subject.
What are the views of the programming community here?

_{I have started to realize that a community wiki is not getting the right amount of participation here.
That is the reason I left this question out in the open, while still contemplating a change to CW.
It was closed once, and I thought that was the end of it. But, now I see it was reopened and has more answers (all of which I have not yet read). However, I see a lot of CW requests and am forced to reconsider that.
This is how I intend to make the CW decision here.}

• There is a comment by Neil Butterworth requesting a CW at 12 upvotes -- "should be community wiki"
• There is a comment by Lance Roberts requesting no CW at 0 upvotes -- "+1 for not putting it in community wiki"
• The difference is 12 for a CW request at the moment
• If this difference becomes 5 more (that is 17), I'll move this question to CW, and it will not return back from there
• Of course, there is also a close vote at the moment; the question may be closed again.