alt Hacker NewsNothing I have read by Kent Beck has ever suggested that he would be useful in a chip company, where lots of people toil for a long period of time in order to produce something that no customer can possibly see until it's finished, and that must be sold in quantities of millions in order to make money.
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> no customer can possibly see until it's finished
I'm sure lots of chip companies don't share their work in progress, but it's not impossible. Sharing simulations and prototypes and engineering samples can and does happen. You've typically got to be a big customer, of course.
But yes, insights for an industry with relatively small costs for change don't apply easily to an industry with large costs for change, and often vice versa.
Interesting. How do chip companies plan such projects? Do they use agile, waterfall, or some other non-software-industry frameworks?
Well he makes software and writes about software development doesn’t he?
Hardware has some hard limitations. The reason software was even invented at all was precisely to escape those limitations.