[vi2837]

Yes, IT processes significantly differ from those in other areas and can't be evaluated by the same methods - due to the complexities, hidden problems, and overevaluated expectations. For example, the known fact: adding a new member to a team doesn't linearly increase productivity.Nowadays probably AI will help here :)

[steve1977]

> adding a new member to a team doesn't linearly increase productivity

How does that differ from non-IT processes?

[datascienced]

Other things can be embarrassing parallel. Teachers for example teach X students each in separate rooms. They need to collaborate sometimes but for the majority of their job they have their own class to teach.

Restaurant staff can also scale like this most likely. Limitations would come from space and available equipment. But this is solvable and why we have McDonalds. etc.

IT is special in having gangs of individual contributors who at some level are like CEOs of the code they create and all the complexity of running a silicon organisation! Every minute is strategy. It is a heavy thinking job.