There’s something to be learned from Toyota’s practices — the metaphor isn’t completely useless — but I think I agree that the auto manufacturing analogy has be

There’s something to be learned from Toyota’s practices — the metaphor isn’t completely useless — but I think I agree that the auto manufacturing analogy has been stretched too far. Making software is not at all like making a hundred thousand of the same car. It’s more like custom-designing a hundred thousand distinct cars, all with slightly-to-drastically different body shapes, colors, interior features, purposes, and customers.