This post is part of a series of posts with my personal notes about the chapters in the book “The mythical man-month” by Frederick P. Brooks. I write these posts as I read through the book, and take notes on the concepts I find more relevant. I do, however, advise reading the book to get the full benefit out of it.
Curiously enough, Brooks starts this chapter by mentioning something I say every once in a while:
The challenge is not simply to build something that “works”. It is to build something that really works in the way the end user needs it to work, with conceptual consistency, minimal technical bugs, and that can be maintained and extended throughout a long life.
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