Thursday, April 26, 2018

High-Quality Software is Possible

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"Large-scale software systems can be built with very high quality, but for a steep price tag". Developers, to achieve high ...

Great Designs Come From Great Designers

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The difference between a poor design and a good design may be the result of a sound design method, superior training, better education, ...

Understand the Customer's Priorities

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It is quite possible that the customers would rather have 90% of the system's functionality late if they could just have 10% of it o...

Prioritize Requirements

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Not all requirements are equal. One way to prioritize requirements is to suffix every requirement in the specification with an M, D, or...

Inspect Code

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Inspection of software detailed design and code was first proposed by Michael Fagan in his paper entitled " Design and Code Inspect...

Keep It Simple

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A simple architecture or a simple algorithm goes a long way toward achieving high maintainability. Remember KISS. Also, as you decompose ...

Build Throwaway Prototypes Quickly

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When building a throwaway prototype, build it as quickly as possible. Don't worry about quality, design, documentation, programming ...

Build the Right Features into a Prototype

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" When constructing a throwaway prototype, build only features that are poorly understood. " You can think of it like this...

Build the Right Kind of Prototype

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There are 2 types of prototype: Throwaway Quick and dirty. Given to the customer for feedback then thrown away once the information ...

Communicate with Customers / Users

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" Never lose sight of why software is being developed: to satisfy real needs, to solve real problems. The only way to solve real nee...