"In particular, I wanted to explain the quite different management experiences encountered in System/360 hardware development and OS/360 software development. This book is a belated answer to Tom Watson's probing questions as to why programming is hard to manage."
Anecdote time. My former company outsourced embedded development to the company that does firmware for Toyota. It was a complete disaster, and a year of work had to be scrapped. Code was rife with cut and paste, badly reimplemented mutexes when they could have used the ones supplied with the RTOS, and other nonsense. I suspect the Japanese company put all their deadweight engineers on the project.
From my understanding of the "unintended acceleration" lawsuit, you could very well have had the exact same engineers who implemented the Toyota firmware :).
