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Drawn from what Melvin Conway said
design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.
From experience we know that the two men, if they are well chosen and survive the experience, will give us a better system. Assumptions which may be adequate for peeling potatoes and erecting brick walls fail for designing systems.
Where this was said
↗How Do Committees Invent?melconway.com
All 12 korrents from this piecethis one is 5th
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