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The analogy actually makes sense if you’ve worked manufacturing things from blueprints. If you hand one complex blueprints to three random construction firms,
by fsociety 6y ago
The analogy actually makes sense if you’ve worked manufacturing things from blueprints.
If you hand one complex blueprints to three random construction firms, from a distance you’d get the same result, nearly, but up close a lot would’ve changed during the project.
There is a reason why engineers are required to inspect the project at some interval and perform quality checks.
- learc83 6y agoAt some level sure there will be differences, but for the end users, unless something went wrong, they won't be able to tell much of a difference. Blueprints for a house are much, much closer to being reproducible than design docs for a software project. If you give design docs to 3 separate dev shops, the end results will be wildly different. >There is a reason why engineers are required to inspect the project at some interval and perform quality checks. It's true that there is still some room for interpretation because blueprints are still a model. But most of what your talking about is because people will cut corners and not follow the specifications, not because the specifications aren't there.