What Makes Software Development So Hard?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 8, 2007 @08:51AM from the release-date-of-the-book-pushed-back-to-2010 dept.

lizzyben writes to mention that CIO Insight is running a short piece that takes a look at why the rocky culture of software development continues to exist despite all of the missed deadlines, blown budgets, and broken promises. From the article: "I was not really looking or thinking about big software projects. I was just coming out of my experiences at Salon, where we built a content management system in 2000, which was painful. I was one of the people in charge of it, and when the dust cleared, I thought, I don't really know that much about software development. Other people must have figured it out better than I have; I must go and learn. So I started reading, and talking to people, and realized it's a big subject and an unsolved problem. And the bigger the project, the harder the problem."

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It's not hard by Oz0ne · 2007-01-08 08:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You just have to have a good system and management if it's a large project. That's all.
Fucking C by SensitiveMale · 2007-01-08 09:34 · Score: 0, Flamebait

IMO, Delphi is still the best and fastest option available.