The missing piece in software is "drawings": the means by which
requirements are conveyed to logisiticians and manufacturers. Unless
one works in a logistics organization, the subtleties of that get lost
or instantly analogized to domain design.
Is software design and production more like building a car, publishing
a book or baking a cake?
len
Quoting Stephen Cameron <>:
> Lost me sorry
>
> I was referring to notion that tenders are incapable of producing a good
> result with software 'procurement'. An iterative process allowing for
> refinement of a solution (prototyping, code-as-design), that allows
> developers and domain experts to learn from each other, is the antithesis
> of 'procurement'.
>
> All this discussion of logistics and quality control, engines, brakes etc.
> misses the point that I've tried to make that *software is different*,
> drawing analogies is actually dangerous (but something done all the time in
> our minds). I believe that you cannot separate the design from the
> production of software in any meaningful way. Yes, TDD is quality control
> but aren't the tests software that have to be designed!
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:26 AM, <> wrote:
>
>> "Yet there is no mention of questioning the validity of the very notion of
>> 'procurement' itself"
>>
>> Don't confuse artifacts and processes that meet requirements for cost
>> transactions with software design. The inability of software analysts to
>> grasp the fundamentals of logistics is one of the drivers for the churn in
>> software tools and products.
>>
>> The essence of waterfall is not seeing over the wall. Programmers in
>> agile environments make the mistake of thinking they are the center of the
>> transactions. They are not. They are an engine, not a steering wheel or a
>> brake.
>>
>> len
>>
>>
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