Comments on: How a beautiful software system becomes Frankenstein

By: Richard S

Richard S — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:35:15 +0000

Thanks for the great article, should be required reading for product owners/managers as well as developers. I think the argument applies just as much to the product requirements as to the design. So many times software is compromised by a lack of understanding or focus on the core functionality. Unless that vision is right the best development will still give a compromised product. I've talked about that a bit in this blog entry if you're interested.

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By: Alexey

Alexey — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:00:43 +0000

Wonderful article. Well structured and well thought, plenty of good advices for PM and team leads. I agree with most of statements I can reason about.