Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.
The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing. - Martin Fowler
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
When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.
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
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 …
I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed - Martin Fowler
I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed
One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't. - Martin Fowler
One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.
Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code - Martin Fowler
Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code
A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others. - Martin Fowler
A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work. - Martin Fowler
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
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
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…
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