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How to use bad metaphors to explain software development

How to use bad metaphors to explain software development

Why explain when you can just compare and get to say "sort of"

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Feb 05, 2024
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Software development is hard to do, hard to understand, and hard to explain. Every company has one layer of a management sandwich that drives its technical decisions.1

  • The top piece of bread is someon…

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