First, construction and automotve have been around for over a century, and they definitely suffered through growing pains in their discipline - there are boondo

First, construction and automotve have been around for over a century, and they definitely suffered through growing pains in their discipline - there are boondoggles galore in the engineering and infrastructure space, and for the same reasons as bad software - a lack of clear vision and product fit. And of course secondly they are subject to a much more rigid set of constraints to define success - primarily the hard laws of physics, chemistry, and human physiology. But the key difference hands down is the raison d'etre - the demand for cars, buildings, bridges, roads, airplanes is self-evident. Almost no software rises to such an elemental need in our world. The ones that do (Linux, avionics firmware, etc) don't run on Agile. The rest: who really (really) cares?