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Does that analogy really hold when you're making software and not a physical product? In software development you don't need a production line staffed by minima
by Silhouette 4y ago
Does that analogy really hold when you're making software and not a physical product? In software development you don't need a production line staffed by minimally skilled workers to implement the plan of the expert. Automation is what we do.
Of course you still often need those experts to have decent soft skills because many commercial projects will still need multiple developers even if everyone involved is very good. But the communication and management overheads scale far more than linearly with the size of the team so a relatively small team of very skilled developers can easily outperform a much larger team of mediocre developers in practice.
- superchroma 4y agoWell, maybe? For every hard problem which requires smart people to actually innovate, there's 100 which involve writing boilerplate to get information from a form to a database and back again.
- labrador 4y ago> Does that analogy really hold when you're making software and not a physical product? I think it does. Of course the minimal skill required is higher than hiring some person off the street to bolt on a few parts as the product proceeds down the assembly line. I worked at Microsoft many years ago and it was a lot like a software factory