Re: OT: Managing software projects

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
Vassil Nikolov <vnikolov@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:39:52 +0200, pjb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Pascal J. Bourguignon) said:
...
The difference
is that all these engineers work with physical objects
As an exercise, find situations in software engineering analogous to
the following situation in electrical engineering: _after_ the
concrete has hardened, it turns out that the cables should have been
laid differently... (I am not making this up.)

There is none.

Are you sure?

A last-minute requirements change after a big complex API was developed and half the code base depends on that API, and the requirements change forces a change to that API, could be considered to be close.
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