Have any companies mastered high craft at scale (like 1000s of engineers)?
In the classic "the mythical man month", Brooks describes 5000 man years effort in delivering OS/360.
I think by any measure that OS/360 would be "high craft".
Consistently, at scale, and in a durable way: I doubt it. However, I have seen many localized cases of extreme excellence in the places where the company knows it really matters.
Yeah. Small groups within it can definitely maintain it
Apple’s hardware side seems pretty great at it. Software maybe less so.
In the classic "the mythical man month", Brooks describes 5000 man years effort in delivering OS/360.
I think by any measure that OS/360 would be "high craft".
Consistently, at scale, and in a durable way: I doubt it. However, I have seen many localized cases of extreme excellence in the places where the company knows it really matters.
Yeah. Small groups within it can definitely maintain it
Apple’s hardware side seems pretty great at it. Software maybe less so.