I was writing an email to my HW and SW Development Team at Memex Automation when I started listing what I feel is important in terms of Software Development. When I got done, I written Edstrom's Ten Laws of Software Development.
- If you do not get the architecture right, then go home because you are wasting your time and the company's money.
- Can Dave Edstrom's mother install, upgrade or use this?
- Test, test, test, test and then test some more
- It is not a question of "is it important", it is a question of "what is it MORE important than?"
- If we put in this feature, how much revenue are you willing to commit to and who are the customers?
- Remember Mike O'Dell's Two Laws:
- Scaling is always the problem
- If you are not afraid, then you simply do not understand.
- Remember Neil Groundwater's Two Laws:
- How do the little electrons know?
- Everything you know is wrong.
- Remember Brooke's Law:
- Adding more software developers to a late software project only makes it later.
- As Professors Brooks also stated this law, "Making 9 woman pregnant today does not help you get a baby in one month."
- Do you KNOW what the REAL problem is?
- If you do not make your own decisions now, time will make them for you.
