Bad Assumptions
The manufacturing mindset assumes that
The problem is predictable
The problem is controllable
The focus should be on optimization
When those things are true, it makes sense for software development managers and their teams (as the manufacturing mindset tells them) to understand the overall problem, to design the best solution, and to implement the design efficiently. Then they should repeat the process to make it maximally efficient. In this way of thinking, optimization is king, and we've carried it straight over to software development. Software development managers have been taught and encouraged to treat software development like an efficiency optimization problem. They got suckered.
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