>>It's a curious thing, but a lot of software development
>>organizations start out wanting to build high rises,
>>but approach the problem as if they
>>were knocking out a dog house. ...

> That's revolutionary.
> Someone should tell Microsoft about this.

:)

OTOH the doghouses argument is often overrated. Software projects that
try to build something that (on aspects of content and scale) was
succesfully done before generally succeed. The trouble is that we get
bigger computers every year, so a software project is likely to try
something that has not been done before. When you build the first
scyscraper or 1km suspension bridge all you can do is hire expierienced
doghouse builders...

Note that I am not saying that stupidity does not exist is software
projectes, I have seen (or been?) my share. Like trying to apply
last-years succesfull software technique on this-years project. (Though
often the problem is not last-year/this-year but the characteristics of
the projects, like applying database-transaction-based notations and
techniques on real-time chemical plant control).

Wouter van Ooijen

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