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What Makes Software Development So Hard?
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."
... of all the hot babes running around the offices in miniskirts giving massages that make it tricky to type. That, and the martinis that keep spilling in the keyboard. Combine that with the constant parties, sailing trips, ski trips, etc and it's a wonder anything gets done.
.com bubble anymore? Glad I left software.
What's that you say? It's not the
Software engineering is "Do X, Y, and Z except when A, B, but not C except when A and B and when user isnt E except when user is E and A and B and X and Y are not Z but Z is B when F is ..."
That was yesterday....We'll be sending you the updated specs soon.