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Re:You are never taught how to build quality software by imetatroll on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:05PM (#38576672)
The article is about delivering a complete, working project "on time". I have a neighbor whose home is being renovated and it is already 2x the time the contractor originally quoted.

Of course it is easier for a developer to walk away from something incomplete than an architect and the contractors involved in a physical project, but still, I hardly think that there is really much difference in terms of timelines.

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Re:You are never taught how to build quality software by ska on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:21PM (#38576794)
FWIW in my experience delays in e.g. home renos (or for that matter larger scale projects) are mostly for reasons unrelated to the engineering. In software projects, it's probably the #1 reason (i.e. we didn't know how to do it when we started).

Software is still absolutely king for number of large scale projects that just never ship, or ship but never work.

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