•Brooks and others
assert that conceptual integrity is a critical
criterion in design
–“It is better to have a system omit certain anomalous features and improvements, but to reflect one set of design ideas,
than to have one that contains many
good but independent and uncoordinated ideas.”
—Brooks, MMM
•Such a design often
makes it far easier to decide what is easy
and reasonable to do as opposed to what is hard and less reasonable to do
–This is not always
what management wants to hear