Four paradoxes of software development [Video]

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Post date April 9, 2025

Software development is full of paradoxes that are challenging to deal with. Our job is to ship despite them.

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Civil engineers can rightfully claim that no two bridges are exactly alike. However, bridges share many known characteristics, and the materials they are built with have known characteristics. Building bridges involves many known knowns and not as many unknown unknowns as one might think.

I am not a civil engineer, and I have nothing but respect for the fine folks who design and build our bridges, but I point this out to contrast bridge building to writing software. Writing good, functioning software is hard. No project undertaken by software development teams has ever been done before. There are similarities among projects, sure, but every software project has its own nuances, requirements, and plentiful supply of unknown unknowns.

Or, one might say, software development is full of paradoxes that are challenging to …

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Software development is full of paradoxes that are challenging to deal with.Our job is to ship despite them.

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