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It's Humans all the Way Down | Folding Burritos
[DL99] Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Dorset House, New York, NY, second edition, 1999.
David Thomas • The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Laurence Tratt: What Factors Explain the Nature of Software?
tratt.netSpaghetti business always exists before software, and spaghetti code is the bane of a system’s existence. Ad hoc architecture, progressive distortion of the software model, wrongly chosen abstractions, seeking opportunities for code reuse before use is even achieved, and unskilled developers are some of the reasons that software complexity prevents
... See moreTomasz Jaskula • Strategic Monoliths and Microservices: Driving Innovation Using Purposeful Architecture (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon))
We've always had a tension between enterprise design practices and a "small pieces, loosely joined" way of making software, to use David Weinberger's felicitous phrase. The advantages to the latter are in part described in Worse is Better and The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Situated software is in the small pieces category, with the following additio... See more