Part I: Manufacturing Software
Software development is a twentieth century phenomenon. That century began with fifty amazing years of mechanization and increasing efficiency. Those fifty years built on something. The fifty years before saw manufacturing move from seat-of-the-pants to “scientific.”
Software development has matured much the same way. When computers themselves were new, software development was like taking a stroll in an earthquake. You couldn't go half a block without the ground shifting violently. Everything changed all the time. That was a prescription for extreme management stress. As software development went mainstream, and virtually every big company had at least some sort of IT department, managers got understandably tired ...
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