Comments on: Why do web sites and software take so long to build? And why is it so hard?

By: Govind

Govind — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:08:18 +0000

Oh I agree entirely with your burnt out friend. But I still hope that the next project will be oh so much better to manage (hasn’t happened and I’m burning out too).

Yes, government do define website design parameters which is why most such sites look bland while being very difficult to navigate. You have to really want the information contained to spend so much time guessing how to find it.

Way back when I had a email byline generator that announced “If builders built built building the way (most) programmers white software, the first woodpecker that came along would mean the end of civilization as we know it!”

By: Tyler Merrick » Blog Archive » +Giovanni Totaro has summed up the pieces I was going to cite

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 06:55:48 +0000

[...] Why do web sites and software take so long to build? And why is it so hard? at Scott Porad I can certainly relate to your friend’s frustrations. Over the past 14 years, I went from being a developer to a code tinkerer. I enjoyed keeping up on the latest development tools but was much mo… [...]

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By: Koszt informacji – z dużej awarii chmury mały deszcz | nbw: reperspective defined

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:57:21 +0000

[...] Rzecz w tym, że w tej dziedzinie nie ma jedynie słusznych odpowiedzi – są standardy, są konwencje ale niczym w tej sentencji: „good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from” wystarczy zestawić ze sobą kilku deweloperów by uzyskać kilkanaście rozwiązań, z których każde realizuje przedstawione założenia ale ma też swoje wady i zalety. Bardzo dobrze opisał to Scott Porad w notce Why do web sites and software take so long to build? And why is it so hard?. [...]

By: Why Does Software Take So Long To Build? | Brian Scheffler – Social IT Nerd

Sun, 20 May 2012 18:54:26 +0000

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By: patbob

patbob — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:23:01 +0000

You use a computer, to write a blog, that you post to the Internet. You probably also use a cell phone, perhaps even a smart phone. All of that was built via that “fools errand”. I’ve lived before computers and cellphones, our lives are better for those fools.

By: Fadi (itoctopus)

Fadi (itoctopus) — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:07:43 +0000

They don’t take so long to build, they take the exact amount of time that they need to get done. The problem usually is because the project manager (or whoever estimated the project) did not collect the right project requirements or did not collect all the requirements.

By: Finally, a Good Starting Point for Why Software is Hard « oracleidentitymanagement

Tue, 15 May 2012 18:55:10 +0000

[...] been meaning to share this thoughtful piece from Scott Porad, CTO of Cheezburger (squee!), that does an excellent job encapsulating some [...]

By: Jeffry Houser

Jeffry Houser — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:12:02 +0000

Plumbing, Carpentry, Engineering and other disciplines are significantly older and more mature than Software engineering.

That is why their are well known approaches that everyone agrees upon, tools to build them with. Because over the course of thousands of years the best approaches have come to the top.

The discipline of building Software is 50 years old at best? I’m sure in a thousand years programmers won’t be arguing about the best framework, design pattern, or language.

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Warum Software bauen schwer ist | Slackspace — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:18:11 +0000

[...] Porad schrieb neulich einen Artikel darüber warum es eigentlich so schwer ist Software zu bauen. First, name one other thing in the [...]