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The IT industry regularly does exactly that. The other engineering disciplines get too much credit for being executed perfectly according to plan and delivering

The IT industry regularly does exactly that. The other engineering disciplines get too much credit for being executed perfectly according to plan and delivering flawless results. Examples: Bridges that have cracks. Roads that become too slippery when it rains. Railways that require immediate reconstruction after the first month of operation. Delays, environmental disasters, multi-million projects that become multi-billion projects. Projects that are ten years late... The Airbus A380 mentioned in the question probably has thousands of defects but it's still a very successful project. On the software side I could mention Windows 10, most triple-A games and Tesla's autopilot. Of course these products have defects. But they're still very successful projects. Give them some credit.

zerd 9y ago
Funny that they mention the A380 specifically because it was actually finished several years behind plan and billions of dollars above budget. http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4700 http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4700
- tofflos 9y ago
  Very funny. I should probably edit my comment to say "may very well have been a successful project" but I like the way you burst that bubble so I'll leave it as it is. ;-)
ozim 9y ago
It would be useful for software developers to really step out of software industry bubble. I hear all the time about construction projects delays and you get a lot of physical products with faults. Other thing we as software developers live in is hiring process. I do not even know what could be hiring process for chemical engineer or something like that.
- droidist2 9y ago
  > I do not even know what could be hiring process for chemical engineer or something like that. They must make you do chemistry brain teasers on a whiteboard right?
nik736 9y ago
Agree, just look at the "new" Airport in Berlin, which will probably never go live.
thisone 9y ago
The I-12 median barrier that significantly worsened the Baton Rouge area 2016 flood.
mmcnl 9y ago
Also Apple has mastered execution pretty well.

zerd 9y ago

Funny that they mention the A380 specifically because it was actually finished several years behind plan and billions of dollars above budget. http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4700 http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4700

tofflos 9y ago
Very funny. I should probably edit my comment to say "may very well have been a successful project" but I like the way you burst that bubble so I'll leave it as it is. ;-)

ozim 9y ago

It would be useful for software developers to really step out of software industry bubble. I hear all the time about construction projects delays and you get a lot of physical products with faults. Other thing we as software developers live in is hiring process. I do not even know what could be hiring process for chemical engineer or something like that.

droidist2 9y ago
> I do not even know what could be hiring process for chemical engineer or something like that. They must make you do chemistry brain teasers on a whiteboard right?

nik736 9y ago

Agree, just look at the "new" Airport in Berlin, which will probably never go live.

thisone 9y ago

The I-12 median barrier that significantly worsened the Baton Rouge area 2016 flood.

mmcnl 9y ago

Also Apple has mastered execution pretty well.