The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

- Martin Fowler

When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

- Martin Fowler

In almost all cases, I’m opposed to setting aside time for refactoring. In my view refactoring is not an activity you set aside time to do. Refactori…

- Martin Fowler

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

- Martin Fowler

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

- Martin Fowler

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

- Martin Fowler

When you actually sit down to write some code, you learn things that you didn't get from thinking about them in modeling terms...there is a feedback …

- Martin Fowler

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

- Martin Fowler

One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.

- Martin Fowler