@trq212: for its entire existence, the creation of software has been an incredibly unreliable endeavor most projects ran late, o…
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The article discusses the historical unreliability of software creation, with projects often running late and over budget, and presents the 'software factory' as a promise to address these issues for small and medium-sized businesses.
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for its entire existence, the creation of software has been an incredibly unreliable endeavor
most projects ran late, over budget, and still missed user needs
if you were an SMB, you simply couldn’t get good software built for you
this is the promise of the ‘software factory’
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