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Re:Why are we so bad at software engineering? by xorcist on Thursday February 13, 2020 @04:19AM (#22316387)
Are you sure? Pretty much every book and methodology over the past two decades has focused on how software engineering needs to "grow up" and be more like other production industries. A cornerstone in the latest fad, "new agile" with books like the Phoenix Project, is how the software delivery process should learn from lean production industries.
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Re:Why are we so bad at software engineering? by madhadron on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:27AM (#22318402)
Yes, we've seen this before. It was called the "software factory" back in the 1980's and 1990's. It was snake oil then and it's snake oil now.
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Re:Why are we so bad at software engineering? by pjc50 on Thursday February 13, 2020 @06:12AM (#22316825)
This is very popular with managers and funders who desperately want the predictability. Those pressures aren't going to go away. Doesn't mean it can be made to fit in that box, though.
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