true, but the comparison to other engineering disciplines does not hold up well at all: while everybody understands that planning when building a House is impor

true, but the comparison to other engineering disciplines does not hold up well at all: while everybody understands that planning when building a House is important as once it stands you can only change it at significant cost this does not hold true to software development. here we press a button and the house is constructed and with CD even delivered to the customer. my take: we ARE very special as our problems have not ever be encountered in the course of mankind due to the very nature of software.