Conceptual integrity
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