Devil's advocate: the difference between then and now is also in the visibility and metrics. If you have some black-box 'software coder' in an office that might

Devil's advocate: the difference between then and now is also in the visibility and metrics. If you have some black-box 'software coder' in an office that might pump out an artifact six times per year, do you really have any clue what is going on, what you are paying them for or how it stacks up against others, other tasks, other jobs, other features or other investments? And what if you need a feature now, and in a few weeks you need a different feature? What if there is a customer demand that changes, do you just continue building the 'old' request that is now worthless on delivery?