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In the STSC CrossTalk article What Engineering Has in Common With Manufacturing and Why It Matters, Dr. Alistair Cockburn explains that software engineering has common threads with traditional manufacturing. He states that decisions in the software development cycle are analogs of parts in a manufacturing line in that “both flow through a network, wait in queues at bottlenecks, [and] have throughput delays”. While I believe that this broad statement can indeed apply to both processes (and we have yet much to learn from the traditional manufacturing aspect), at a finer level I find the manufacturing of goods is currently dissimilar to the development of software.