Many "real world" building projects far exceed the originally estimated cost; some of them are not very stable at all, and scale badly when put under strain tha

Many "real world" building projects far exceed the originally estimated cost; some of them are not very stable at all, and scale badly when put under strain that wasn't originally envisioned. Just one link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_Building#Timeline_of_cost_increases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_Building#Ti... Software development is not nearly perfect, but neither is engineering of "real" buildings. My farther in law is a civil engineer, and when I told him that I believed that engineering in his discipline worked much better than in the software industry, he just gave me a disbelieving look and called me naiive.