Software Development Iceberg

Working Software WHAT YOU SEE WHAT YOU DON'T SEE The jar files that Vivek's svs-admin, copied into the cluster to hot-fix the production release that brought down the web site. The Weekend that Megan, the Senior Developer, spent fixing code that Jerry, the Junior Developer, left behind when he quit in a huff. The family meal that Beth, the SRE, missed having to work late to reconcile the CI/CD pipeline with the hot-fix Vivek made. The 3 hour argument that the dev-lead had with the product manager trying to avoid corrupting the app's API.

An iceberg diagram about software development shows “Working Software” above the surface, while beneath it are emergency hot-fixes, broken deployments, missed family time, and arguments over API changes. The joke is that visible working software hides the enormous effort, chaos, and personal cost required to make it work, so it is used as a reaction to underestimated engineering work. EN: An iceberg diagram about software development shows “Working Software” above the surface, while beneath it are emergency hot-fixes, broken deployments, missed family time, and arguments over API changes. The joke is that visible working software hides the enormous effort, chaos, and personal cost required to make it work, so it is used as a reaction to underestimated engineering work.

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