Perhaps the key to a productive software industry is - paradoxically - to de-industrialize. Model the organization and communications patterns on a guild of ind

Perhaps the key to a productive software industry is - paradoxically - to de-industrialize. Model the organization and communications patterns on a guild of independent workshops, each workshop comprising one artisan developer with one or two apprentice developers, with each workshop supplying hyper-specialized services based around a library of existing, re-deployable functionality.