[prog] State of software engineering profession

[Laurel Fan]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 01:45:58PM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> Writing the code first, and then writing a design from the code, is a
> horribly broken way to do business.  But it's a lot smarter than to
> write a design document first, get bureaucratically married to it, and
> be unable to overcome its inertia when you have to deviate from the
> document later to overcome unforeseen bugs.

Have you looked in to Extreme Programming and Agile Methods in
general?  Some of the basic concepts are accepting that requirements
and priorities will change, and taking advantage of this fact, and
valuing getting stuff working over bureaucracy such as milestones and
big design documents.

http://agilemanifesto.org/
http://www.xprogramming.com/

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