MacDonell, SGKirk, DMcLeod, L2011-08-232011-08-232008-09-152008-09-15Proceedings of the 4th international ERCIM workshop on software evolution and evolvability at the 23rd IEEE/ACM international conference on automated software engineering. L'Aquila, Itally, pp21-24978-1-4244-2776-5https://hdl.handle.net/10292/1831We elaborate on the analogy between humans and bespoke software systems and we use this analogy to inform an alternative perspective on the development and management of such systems.©2008 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.Biology computingEyesHumansJob production systemsKirk field collapse effectProgrammingProject managementSoftware development managementSoftware engineeringSoftware systemsConference ContributionOpenAccess10.1109/ASEW.2008.4686317