On: If architects had to work like software developers

[Zak]

I have to disagree. It would make for less buggy software, but I suspect not for software that people want. The best way we know how to make products people want is to get a basic version released and iterate rapidly.

[ibsulon → Zak]

Because it would drive up the cost of software, it would spur the requirements of better requirements definition at the outset.

It would also kill most in-house development, for that matter.

[gaius → Zak]

As the architecture model fails to construct buildings people want?

People's wants are easily defined once cash money is involved in most industries...

[swombat → gaius]

Applying these hurdles to software would be senseless, because the cost of bad software is infinitely smaller than the cost of bad architecture.

99.999% of software is never in a position to kill someone if it fails catastrophically. 99.999% of buildings are.