The Design of Design A Book by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. www.goodreads.com Design process models: A summary argumentThe spiral modelA grossly obese set of requirementsRequirements proliferationThe architectural contracting model+9 More Design System as Style Manual With Web Characteristics designsoftwarearchitecturemakingstyle
What's Wrong With This Model? A Chapter from The Design of Design by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. What's wrong with the rational modelDeciding what to designEvaluating goodnessChanging constraintsThey just don't work that way+1 More
Efficiency is the Enemy An Article fs.blog Many of us have come to expect work to involve no slack time because of the negative way we perceive it. In a world of manic efficiency, slack often comes across as laziness or a lack of initiative. Without slack time, however, we know we won’t be able to get through new tasks straight away, and if someone insists we should, we have to drop whatever we were previously doing. One way or another, something gets delayed. The increase in busyness may well be futile. It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity efficiencyproductivitywork