We've often compared the making of products to the making of movies. Both need a business producer (ie., product manager) and an artistic director (ie., product architect or designer). Scott Sehlhorst explores this idea further:
"Alan Cooper presents the analogy that software development is like making movies in his book The Inmates are Running the Asylum. Cooper is presenting the analogy in the context of validating the business case for investing in interaction design. Cooper points out that they've been making movies for a lot longer than we've been making software, and he's exactly right that there is something to learn from the film industry."
Read the full post at Software design and making movies.
