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The Fear Premium
In an interesting echo of my last piece (Why Software Isn't Like Building Construction), Scott Ambler has analysed bureaucratic processes as a response to management fear about what can go wrong in software development. His conclusion is that these processes only give the illusion of addressing the underlying fear. His article is well worth reading.
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