Hear the stomping feet? The 3 a.m. break-outs? if you're a software development office, you may want to trim the trees outside your windows – software development, as an industry, is a rowdy teenager, begging to get out. 

Okay so perhaps your software code isn't jumping out the windows after curfew, but the industry is a just a teenager, especially when you compare it to it's counterparts of manufacturing, creative design and architectural processes. 

This idea resonated with me (as I have a teenager brother) and I wanted to present it to you. 

I'm still out here in Salt Lake City (which is so unbelievably gorgeous; it's good to get out of smoggy NYC once in a while), and I spent the morning meeting with vendors and analysts about the Agile movement and the state of the software industry. 

Vishy Nagaraj, VP of market development at Thoughtworks Studios, said "software is growing up," and explained that as the industry grows, it is looking for parallels in other areas of manufacturing. 

Manufacturing, agricultural planning, architectural building and creative design have been around since the dawn of time, and now software is trying to find it's place, so logically developers look for industries with titles similar to their own. 

"What other industry has architect as a title?," Nagaraj said, citing architectural design as that industry, but then noting that cement isn't malleable, while software is. 

"Lean talks about building quality into manufacturing, and now software – in the Agile methodology – does too," he said. 

Think back to your first software project -- would you say it's a combination of creativity and manufacturing? Do you feel that this relatively young movement has lots to learn? 

Share your ideas with me, and be sure to check back for more views from Agile2011 in Utah.