The analogy that the author presents with the disassembled bed frame on the floor also applies to non-software projects. For things that are small to medium siz

The analogy that the author presents with the disassembled bed frame on the floor also applies to non-software projects. For things that are small to medium sized pieces of physical infrastructure, data cables, electrical wiring, etc, the "we'll fix it later" mentality and normalization-of-sketchy-hack-jobs also applies. Look at any mid size enterprise rack cabinet of servers, switches, routers and stuff where the cabling is an absolute nightmare with no labels on anything and years of stuff accreted on top of years of previous stuff. It never gets fixed until something catastrophic happens.