I vividly remember one of my first sightings of a large software project. I was taking a summer internship at a large English electronics company. My manager, part of the QA group, gave me a tour of a site and we entered a huge, depressing, windowless warehouse full of people working in cubicles. I was told that these programmers had been writing code for this software for a couple of years, and while they were done programming, their separate units were now being integrated together, and they h...