The Factory Approach to Large-Scale Software Development (Classic Reprint): Implications for Strategy, Technology, and Structure

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Excerpt from The Factory Approach to Large-Scale Software DevelopmentRecent developments in design and production technology have made it necessary to revise traditionally accepted tradeoffs between process flexibility and efficiency, as well as divisions between design and production. Rationalizing development processes without simply producing standardized goods or locking an organization into a single mode of production also combine product differentiation with process efficiency a rare but powerful combination of competitive skills (porter 1980.