Film scheduling is a "real" discipline because the range of effort for (major motion picture) filmmaking projects is extremely narrow, the dependencies are al

Film scheduling is a "real" discipline because the range of effort for (major motion picture) filmmaking projects is extremely narrow, the dependencies are all known, and all the projects are bottom up in nature i.e. this number of shots, sets, cameras, explosions, etc. equals X more dollars and Y more hours to produce it. If every software project ever made was just a CRUD app, with the only variations being the number of fields and the amount of data validation, and we'd been doing it for 100 years, I'm sure our ability to finish on time and on budget would be much less maligned.