Hackers As Factory Workers?

DevDude writes "A strangely interesting article is running on MSDN, entitled: The Case for Software Factories. It suggests creating 'development environments configured to support the rapid development of a specific type of application.' As a developer thrust into many an unsavory situation, I am constantly stepping in the remnants of some development methodology or other. Will super-specialization of software development teams help the industry to push out better software faster? Or are we hassled enough without being treated as an assembly line?"

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it's a typo

[n3k5]

200 projects sounds extremely low

There's a reference to the source of this number right in there, why don't you just have a look at it? In the original paper, you find:

"In the United States, we spend more than $250 billion each year on IT application development of approximately 175,000 projects."