Any other engineering discipline. What are common practices in IT would be negligence in other disciplines and might get your permit/license removed.
IT is the only sector where companies like Cisco or SAP can exist despite the horrible reliability of their products.
As in - you can setup a process in Germany, then replicate it globally with predictable accuracy. And predictability matters a lot in stable low margin businesses. Walmart can't spend a few billion on a project that may have -100% to 400% return value, when. they have the option of having a reliable 20%-30% return value.
Come on, other industries have garbage companies putting out garbage products, too.
That's correct, but we have to admit that the software industry excels at this.