Re: Re: Design vs. Manufacturing
Rick Mugridge <r.mugridge-1/[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:00:25 +1300
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--------------030105060102090708040706 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Bill, Yes, I've read them both. As I remember, /The Design Factory/ covers that argument much more explicitly. I reckon that the idea that software development is akin to manufacturing has had a really bad influence on our models of software development (traditional Software Engineering is full of this notion, where programming is a minor element). BX (before XP) books on software development throw up this model all over. I suspect that the whole idea of software as manufacturing will be seen in retrospect as a massive dead-end. Perhaps just as the middle ages torture of suspects to determine guilt ended up being rejected from most justice systems after centuries of considerable refinement by specialists. Cheers, Rick > *From:* "Bill Walton" <[email protected] > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremecustomering/post?protectID=014176235078035086169181031024006165108222149009043027152006048067>> > *Date:* Mon Jan 27, 2003 12:41 pm > *Subject:* Re: [XC] Re: Design vs. Manufacturing > Hi Rick, > > I've heard of both books, but didn't realize they addressed software > too. I > assume you've read them so I'll ask... do either (or both) make the > argument that software development is a design / development activity > rather > than a manufacturing activity? If so, that's the one I'd like to read > first. Thanks for the help. > > Best regards, > Bill --------------030105060102090708040706 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> Hi Bill,<br> <br> Yes, I've read them both. As I remember, /The Design Factory/ covers that argument much more explicitly. <br> <br> I reckon that the idea that software development is akin to manufacturing has had a really bad influence on our models of software development (traditional Software Engineering is full of this notion, where programming is a minor element). BX (before XP) books on software development throw up this model all over. I suspect that the whole idea of software as manufacturing will be seen in retrospect as a massive dead-end. Perhaps just as the middle ages torture of suspects to determine guilt ended up being rejected from most justice systems after centuries of considerable refinement by specialists.<br> <br> Cheers, Rick<br> <br> <blockquote type="cite"><font><b>From:</b> "Bill Walton" <<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremecustomering/post?protectID=014176235078035086169181031024006165108222149009043027152006048067">[email protected]</a>></font><br> <font size="+0"><b>Date:</b> Mon Jan 27, 2003 12:41 pm</font><br> <font size="+0"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [XC] Re: Design vs. Manufacturing</font><br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite"><tt> Hi Rick,<br> <br> I've heard of both books, but didn't realize they addressed software too. I<br> assume you've read them so I'll ask... do either (or both) make the<br> argument that software development is a design / development activity rather<br> than a manufacturing activity? If so, that's the one I'd like to read<br> first. Thanks for the help.<br> <br> Best regards,<br> Bill</tt></blockquote> <br> <br> <br> <tt> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:<BR> extremecustomering-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org<BR> <BR> </tt> <br> <br> <tt>Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the <a href="http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/">Yahoo! Terms of Service</a>.</tt> </br> </body> </html> --------------030105060102090708040706--