Software Engineering Method and Theory (SEMAT)

Anyone who has worked in the software industry for a few years, in all likelihood, wouldn't find it hard to acknowledge that the state of practice in software development has a long way to go.
 
Visit Software Engineering Method and Theory (SEMAT) for a community working on developing a framework for improving the state of practice in software. Its heartening to see a list of great signatories on this initiative.
 
The SEMAT call for action states:

Software engineering is gravely hampered today by immature practices. Specific problems include:  

• The prevalence of fads more typical of fashion industry than of an engineering discipline.
• The lack of a sound, widely accepted theoretical basis.
• The huge number of methods and method variants, with differences little understood and artificially magnified.
• The lack of credible experimental evaluation and validation.
• The split between industry practice and academic research.

Visit here for SEMAT publications and references.