At the beginning of this book, we looked at the birth of Agile and what provoked this movement. In Chapter 1, The Software Industry and the Agile Manifesto, we discussed how, in an attempt to correct our inability to bring projects in on time and budget, we sought to get more precise in our predictions.
It was felt that if other engineering disciplines such as civil engineering were able to be more precise with their process, then so could software engineering.
However, the reality is that we don't build software like we construct bridges or buildings or hardware. With all of those physical things, by the time we get to the actual construction phase, we've already created the design schematics. The construction phase is an endeavor in logistics based on assembling the different components in the right order.
As Neal Ford, software architect at Thoughtworks...