How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

Originality is no excuse for ignorance.

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, the clients do not know what they want. They usually do not know what questions must be answered, and they have almost never thought of the problem in the detail that must be specified.

Predictability and great design are not friends.

I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality.