Beat Schwegler's 2 CentsIt is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change - Charles DarwinWhy Restaurants arent run by the Software Industry (part 2)- February 27, 2006 In my last post, I discussed some assets that restaurants enable to deliver high quality dishes on budget and on time. I truly believe that in the software industry we have to step up to the next level of predictability, quality and efficiency. Software Factories are a long term vision to improve productivity and predictability across the software life cycle. Lets have a look at the four pillars of Software Factories and how they address some of our pain points in our industry: Software..http://blogs.msdn.com/beatsch/archive/2006/02/27/539774.aspx Why Restaurants arent run by the Software Industry- February 19, 2006 Last week, I attended a great cooking class as part of my Architect Bootcamp delivery in Denmark. It is really impressive to see how this industry understands the streamlining of the creation of a meal but still is able to ensure the highest level of quality. While we were preparing parts of our own meal, I started to think what would happen if our industry would run a restaurant: Lets imagine the experience of a dinner in a restaurant that is run by the methods and principles of...http://blogs.msdn.com/beatsch/archive/2006/02/19/535037.aspx |