Comments on: The Ultimate Software Development Metaphor? http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/07/17/the-ultimate-software-development-metaphor/ Lidor Wyssocky's Blog on Optimizing Software Development Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:48:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on The Ultimate Software Development Metaphor? by: Abhijit Nadgouda @ iface » Software Development Is Like Running A Restaurant http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/07/17/the-ultimate-software-development-metaphor/#comment-1051 Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:41:23 +0000 http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/07/17/the-ultimate-software-development-metaphor/#comment-1051 [...] Software development is alien to a lot of people and explaining it in technical terms really makes it worse. So, we use metaphors. Lidor Wyssocky says it is like a broken telephone. And there have been many more attempts, to compare it with the construction industry with similar roles - architect, designer, developer (?) or manufacturing. Here is my attempt. [...] […] Software development is alien to a lot of people and explaining it in technical terms really makes it worse. So, we use metaphors. Lidor Wyssocky says it is like a broken telephone. And there have been many more attempts, to compare it with the construction industry with similar roles - architect, designer, developer (?) or manufacturing. Here is my attempt. […]

]]> Comment on The Ultimate Software Development Metaphor? by: Lidor Wyssocky http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/07/17/the-ultimate-software-development-metaphor/#comment-975 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:23:59 +0000 http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/07/17/the-ultimate-software-development-metaphor/#comment-975 Hi Greg, That's indeed a great metaphor for yet another common problem. If any of you has more ideas for useful metaphors for sub processes, common problems, and phenomena, please feel free to post it here. I might just consider creating a dedicated page for such metaphors. Lidor Hi Greg,

That’s indeed a great metaphor for yet another common problem.

If any of you has more ideas for useful metaphors for sub processes, common problems, and phenomena, please feel free to post it here. I might just consider creating a dedicated page for such metaphors.

Lidor

]]> Comment on The Ultimate Software Development Metaphor? by: Greg http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/07/17/the-ultimate-software-development-metaphor/#comment-974 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:24:07 +0000 http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/07/17/the-ultimate-software-development-metaphor/#comment-974 I like the broken telephone metaphore. It made me think of other childhood games that could be used as a metaphor for SD. How about Jump Rope--if two seperate groups of of SD stakeholders who are controlling the ropes don't use the same chat and are out of rhythm the group in the middle is going to get tangled in the rope or fall over. For example, if Senior IT Mgmt is telling you to do one thing and Marketing is wanting something else, IT Development teams can get stuck in the middle tangled in the rope or falling over. I like the broken telephone metaphore. It made me think of other childhood games that could be used as a metaphor for SD. How about Jump Rope–if two seperate groups of of SD stakeholders who are controlling the ropes don’t use the same chat and are out of rhythm the group in the middle is going to get tangled in the rope or fall over. For example, if Senior IT Mgmt is telling you to do one thing and Marketing is wanting something else, IT Development teams can get stuck in the middle tangled in the rope or falling over.

]]> Comment on The Ultimate Software Development Metaphor? by: Stefano http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/07/17/the-ultimate-software-development-metaphor/#comment-973 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:02:01 +0000 http://blog.qualityaspect.com/2006/07/17/the-ultimate-software-development-metaphor/#comment-973 Good, till now I have frequently used the "gardener" metaphor, but it worked only for bigger and longer projects (growing plants, new plants, need to cut branches, etc.) Good, till now I have frequently used the “gardener” metaphor, but it worked only for bigger and longer projects (growing plants, new plants, need to cut branches, etc.)

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