But Hollywood has the same problem with script writers and directors, so the adaptation mechanisms they use might also be instructive. Where software development is like construction is that building construction also has to fit itself into these common management sockets, so something of the art of designing specialized adapters can be learned. Analogies are the signal flags of communication, what we need are FibreChannels. It’s all a big problem in interoperability. The external shell that interior design software development presents to management does not fit well into the sockets management provides. Development of large software projects has to deal with communication, understanding, specification and its relation to testing, the decision to freeze the API , code small or code fast, standards vs proprietary, and so on.