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Re:Software development requires servant leaders by alex_anglin on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @09:21AM (#17765804)
>>Software is the only discipline that exclusively creates practical results via ideas.

You're going a bit far there. How about writing, design, art, etc...? There are plenty of creative industries out there.

Re:Software development requires servant leaders by nautilus12 on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @09:32AM (#17765872)
Thats the point, software is a creative endeavor with more in common with those fields. Does anyone wonder why the novelist or the artist is taking too long. Why do they get that freedom but not in software?
Re:Software development requires servant leaders by alex_anglin on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @09:41AM (#17765929)
Probably because, by and large, they work for themselves and not as often in teams.
Re:Software development requires servant leaders by douglaswlance on Thursday August 16, 2018 @09:42AM (#17774510)
Writing, design, art, and other creative disciplines generate products. They do not create results, by which I mean, software itself generates results. You can write a book, but the book doesn't do anything. A person can read it, but the book doesn't generate results.
Re:Software development requires servant leaders by humanrebar on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @09:32AM (#17765871)
In those examples, a rush job is qualitatively worse, not something completely useless. Half finished tunnels, bridges, and (usually) programs provide basically no value.