I don't know where you got the notion that software is just creative art form of its individual developers. In that case, software would have been a guild activity and the industry will not exist. Software has certain creative elements, but there is also ample engineering and planning involved. Don't fall prey to hubris of lone-wolves of yesteryear - the software universe is manned by millions of faceless workers who create, design, engineer, plan and produce complex software. It is not one or two individual developers who matter, it is the team. This is coming from a Software Architect who has designed and implemented dozens of complex projects with large teams. Nothing would be farther from the truth if I said, the success of my projects were solely because of me or two three lone wolf programmers! Software as an industry depends on the notion that the process of developing software is controllable and replicable. If you do not get that notion, then you can as well dream industrial revolution did not happen and software universe do not exist.
