Anybody who tries to compare software development to building bridges doesn't know what they're talking about. Or so I thought, until I stumbled across some research from the construction industry.
The research in question was a study into the lack of efficiency in the Swedish house building industry. OK, not exactly bridges but houses are close enough for me. The study report's main conclusion was that building projects are actually very inefficient and savings of up to 50% could be achieved.
I was reminded again of this report while attending a ScrumMaster course which we had arranged in Falun (thanks Henrik for two days of enlightenment).
And the reason I was reminded of it was that most of the recommendations the report made could have come straight from a scrum manual:
- focusing on delivering value to the customer
- eliminating activities that don't deliver customer value
- creating cross functional teams with customers and suppliers working in partnership
- empowering and encouraging workers to improve their own processes.
Perhaps it is time to start dreaming of building bridges like we build software!
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