Re:Things I learned from building a production database
by krubar on Thursday November 25, 2021 @05:33AM
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I think this can be related to what Mel Conway stated in his famous "How Committees Invent?"
> Let us first examine the tendency to overpopulate a
design effort. It is a natural temptation of the initial designer-the one whose preliminary design concepts influence the organization of the design effort-to delegate
tasks when the apparent complexity of the system approaches his limits of comprehension. This is the turning
point in the course of the design. Either he struggles to
reduce the system to comprehensibility and wins, or else he
loses control of it. The outcome is almost predictable if
there is schedule pressure and a budget to be managed.
> Let us first examine the tendency to overpopulate a design effort. It is a natural temptation of the initial designer-the one whose preliminary design concepts influence the organization of the design effort-to delegate tasks when the apparent complexity of the system approaches his limits of comprehension. This is the turning point in the course of the design. Either he struggles to reduce the system to comprehensibility and wins, or else he loses control of it. The outcome is almost predictable if there is schedule pressure and a budget to be managed.