Upfront design

Planning is good, plan. Designing is good, design. But there’s something about ‘Upfront design” that seems to suggest that you can come up with the perfect plan. That you can know it all. Here are three quotes that might help you: “It’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.” – Niels Bohr “There are… Continue reading Upfront design

The Art of Prototypes and Building MVPs

The Art of Prototypes and Building MVPs – Ben Hall http://www.infoq.com/presentations/building-prototypes Build Shit That Matters Build It Speak With Users Launch with 30 days Rinse, Repeat

Essays on object-oriented software engineering (1993)

“Many object-oriented people, for example, seem to focus almost entirely on programming language issues. They tend to cast all discussions in terms of the syntax and semantics of their chosen object-oriented programming language. These people find it impossible (for all intents and purposes) to discuss any software engineering activity (e.g., analysis, design, and testing) without… Continue reading Essays on object-oriented software engineering (1993)