Development as Gardening?

In the seventh part of Bill Venner’s discussion with Andy and me, we’re talking about gardening as a metaphor for software development.

Thinking in terms of analogies is a useful way of extracting hidden meaning. Brian Marick and Ken Schwaber are co-hosting an interesting workshop at Alistair Cockburn’s Salt Lake Agile Development Conference. I particular like the first phrase in the description: The Analogy Fest is an attempt to manufacture serendipity .