http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Agile-Architecture-Is-Not-Fragile-Architecture-James-Coplien-Kevlin-Henney
Making the tough decisions early make the other decisions easier
To do agile you should be standing on a firm foundation
Stability != Static
YAGNI? not extremely!
Fainting Ignorance :Don’t Play dumb! If you know some stuff celebrate that you know it and put a peg in the ground.
It is ok to know stuff, it is alright.
This post has been originally posted on infoQ on Religion driven industry: buzzwords and checklists vs. thinking and inspection
James O. Coplien has recently argued that today’s industry is based on buzzwords and checklists. The use of some techniques and methodologies, TDD for instance, has become “a religious issue”. This prevents from inspecting possible tradeoffs and focusing on finding solutions that would be the most appropriate and the most cost-effective . (more…)