How to Build Your Own Software Factory

How to Build Your Own Software Factory In February, when we put out the StrongDM Software Factory work, I expected people to argue with it. I did not expect the response to be as positive as it was, although I loved the discussion on HN. The funny part is that after all of that, we still get asked the same question: “How do I build my own software factory?” That is not a bad question. It is just usually the wrong first question. People hear “software factory” and picture a product. A thing you buy. A dashboard. A queue. A fleet of background agents. Jira tickets go in. Pull requests come out. Henry Ford, but with Claude Code instead of steel. That is not the thing. There is no one-size-fits-all software factory. I do not think there should be one. Maybe I will bite my tongue on that in a year. Would not be the first time reality deleted one of my confident sentences. When you build an actual factory line, you do not say “factory” and start manufacturing whatever object happens to be…