> Do you have more examples of companies that are not feature factories?
Actually, none of them are. They're just managed as if they were.
In a factory, you can literally have a machine that stamps out 1000 widget blanks an hour and if the operator does an hour of overtime, that's an extra 1000 widgets produced that day.
You've got your workers on 8-hour shifts and sales signs a contract to deliver 8,500 widgets per day? Then you know right away you're going to need 10-hour shifts, or regular overtime, or a second 8-hour shift, or a second machine, and you can figure out how much each of those would cost, and whether you've got enough car parking for the extra workers.
Whereas in software, your feature factory produces ???? per hour, sales promises customers ???? and an hour of overtime achieves ???.
Actually, none of them are. They're just managed as if they were.
In a factory, you can literally have a machine that stamps out 1000 widget blanks an hour and if the operator does an hour of overtime, that's an extra 1000 widgets produced that day.
You've got your workers on 8-hour shifts and sales signs a contract to deliver 8,500 widgets per day? Then you know right away you're going to need 10-hour shifts, or regular overtime, or a second 8-hour shift, or a second machine, and you can figure out how much each of those would cost, and whether you've got enough car parking for the extra workers.
Whereas in software, your feature factory produces ???? per hour, sales promises customers ???? and an hour of overtime achieves ???.