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Adding a garage isn't predictable either. You think you have good as-built drawings, then it turns out your house has creative electrical wiring that you have t
by wlesieutre 8y ago
Adding a garage isn't predictable either. You think you have good as-built drawings, then it turns out your house has creative electrical wiring that you have to deal with first, or your shingles don't show up on schedule, etc.
Any non-trivial project with external dependencies is going to have to be able to adjust when things don't go as planned.
Software development might be worse and it's worth trying to improve, but it's far from unique.
- singingfish 8y agoHere's an example of that: when I built a house, we had the following characteristics: 1 A geotechnical exclusion zone at the front of the house whose exact location was unknown. 2 Three strange angles (one for solar access, two marking out the block size) making measurement tricky thus tricky locating the exclusion zone. 3 A brick house base and a steel frame to go on top. There was 5 centimetre tolerance for the location of the steel beams. Get #1 wrong, and start building all over again. Get #3 wrong, and it's time to re-fabricate the frame. Could have been costly. Went well but took a lot of care, attention and coordinating across 5 groups of contractors. As a side note, one of my occasional hobbies is performing super-sketchy surveying methodology. It turned out that my extermely non professional, totally un-certifiable methodology was within 10cm of the actual exclusion zone (whose length is around 10 metres from the front of the block of land).