Software is a FOCUS intensive industry.
Industries are usually characterized as labor-intensive or as capital-intensive. Labor-intensive industries requires a lot of human input in order to produce their output. A classical examples is the industry of services (like restaurants or hotel) or even old manufacturing (where people were building stuff with their hands.) Capital-intensive industries requires much less human input but they requires a lot of capital in order to produce their output. An example could be building oil rings, insurance companies, energy producers, airlines. Software does not fall in neither this two categories. With “software industry” I mean the industry that produce software products, ventures like AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platforms are definitely capital intensive industries. In this post I am talking about software product like Slack, Notion, WordPress, GCC. Software is not labor-intensive. Not many people are necessary in order to produce good software. On the contrary, Brooks’s law on software project…