Tag archive for “Development Process”
“The software isn’t finished until the last user is dead.”
“There is an old saying with software that three years from now, no one will remember if you shipped an awesome software release a few months late. What customers will still remember three years from now is if you shipped a software release that wasn’t ready a few months too soon. It takes multiple product releases to change people’s quality perception about one bad release.”
“The cost of adding a feature isn’t just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion.”
“Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning.”
“Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: Feedback is the treament.”
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.”
“Requirements are not architecture. Requirements are not design, nor are they the user interface. Requirements are need.”
“There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. ”
Brooks’ Law: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”