[partomniscient]

I think most of us go through a 'software development is like..' metaphor phase.

Back in my day it was via McConnell and the PragProg guys. Jeff Atwood covered it in a blog post from over 15 years ago:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/tending-your-software-garden/

[begueradj]

The top comment of that article is too blatant