Many think that the big step from "coding" to "software engineering" is made by having elegant architectures, well-defined execution plans, and software that moves big companies' processes. This mostly comes from our vision of the classic industrial product development world, where planning mostly mattered more than execution, because the execution was moved forward by an assembly line and software was an expensive internal utility that only big companies could afford
As software development science moved forward and matured, it became clear that classic industrial best practices weren't always a great fit for it. The reason being that every software product was very different, due to the technologies ...
