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As a consumer, I can buy an already manufactured pair of jeans or an already programmed Adobe Photoshop for a fixed price. As a producter, the cost of building
by duchenne 7y ago
As a consumer, I can buy an already manufactured pair of jeans or an already programmed Adobe Photoshop for a fixed price.
As a producter, the cost of building a jeans factory does not seem to be inherently more predictable than the budget of a software development project.
- ghostpepper 7y agoI think, to take this analogy a step further, you need to make sure your manager realizes the factory is not built yet.
- lonelappde 7y agoYou think when Tim Cook signs a contract with Foxconn, he says "charge me whatever you want after it's done"?
- threwawasy1228 7y agoThe recent Foxconn plant in Wisconsin that may or may not be happening is a great example. They committed earlier, and claim now that their initial estimates were incorrect and that a plant in that area will not be profitable for them. They have now stopped the plan entirely and reworked what it is they are going to build completely from scratch. This despite having already committed to building the factory. Even at scale people can pull out of complex agreements if their estimates turn out to be faulty.