The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of the most valuable rules is avoid duplication. "Once and only once" is the Extreme Programming phrase.

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

I can't choose whether someone is offended by my actions. I can choose whether I care.

If you're afraid to change something it is clearly poorly designed.