Aristocracy, Democracy and System Design

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Aristocracy, Democracy and System Design
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Conceptual Integrity

• Sacrificing some ideas to lead to a common goal
• Software design tends to lead to conceptual
  disunity
• Far better for a system to maintain conceptual
  integrity

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Aristocracy Democracy

• Conceptual integrity dictates design proceed from
  one mind, or a small group of minds
• Schedule pressures demand many workers
• Must separate architecture and implementation
• Are the architects an elite group?

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Idle Implementers?

• Two common illusions
• Architects will get all the creative fun and shut
  out the inventiveness of the implementers
• Many implementers will sit idly waiting on the
  specifications
• Work will be done in parallel

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