•Brooks says he is a “thoroughgoing, died-in-the-wool empiricist.
•“Our designs are so complex there is no hope of getting them right first time by pure thought. To expect to is arrogant.
•“So, we must adopt design-build processes that
incorporate evolutionary growth
…
–“Iteration, and restart if necessary
–“Early prototyping and testing with real users”
•Maybe this is more an issue of requirements and specification, but I think it applies to design,
too
–“Plan to throw one away, you will anyway.”