Modern #engineering is full of "things done right, despite the odds" stories: Taj Mahal, HMS Victory, Flying Scotsman, Model T, Golden Gate, Apollo, Boeing 747, Intel 4004, UNIX, VisiCalc—on and on and on.
Why, then, is modern #IT #software practice so very much unlike those success stories?🤷♂️
@ambihelical
Yes, indeed! Great observation.
The 747 was one of the most complex engineering projects, which was preceded by Apollo, a project that was a few orders of magnitude more complex. Joe Sutter was "the father" of the 747, and Wernher von Braun of the Apollo. But even such engineering giants could not have held every minutiae of projects at those scales.
The power of abstract thinking, yeah?