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25 Sep 04 |
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(Source: Bill Wake) Is writing software more like manufacturing cookies or
more like designing cookie cutters? It’s easy to wish that we could
develop software like a factory stamps out cookies, but software has a
design or creation element that is missing in that analogy.
But there are similarities: software is developed in stages, it is created
in a process amenable to change, and it’s developed in a team. Lean
manufacturing is a different approach than a traditional assembly line, and
offers some lessons for software development. xp123.com/xplor/xp0312/index.shtml
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