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

So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

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

I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

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

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.