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Re:The Cost Center Trap by paulddraper on Monday November 20, 2017 @04:06PM (#15743287)
That's not specific to software at all.

Talk to any electrical, mechanical, or civil engineer and they will be focusing on getting this on time and under budget, not trying to increase "income" or "revenue".

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Re:The Cost Center Trap by HeyLaughingBoy on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:56AM (#15747548)
It's far more prevalent in software though. Those other fields realize that incurring any technical debt is going to involve very expensive repayment.

One of Boehm's "fundamental problems of software" is that it's so easy to change, that it's easy to assume that you can always change it later at no cost. This is really why the problem is far greater in software.

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