Comment Factory Analogy is Wrong (Score 0) 342
The factory analogy is wrong. Factories produce large quantities of the same thing over and over. The thrust of the business process is consistency and efficiency. I have always been puzzled why anyone would relate this to programming. Once a program is written and debugged, it can be reproduced with perfect consistency.
The construction business is a much better model, where there is a customer / end-user, an architect and various builders, some of which are generalists and some more specialized. Also, some elements are prefabricated, others have to be custom-built.
FWIW,
~mark
The construction business is a much better model, where there is a customer / end-user, an architect and various builders, some of which are generalists and some more specialized. Also, some elements are prefabricated, others have to be custom-built.
FWIW,
~mark
