A rational design process: How and why to fake it
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 12 (2):
251-257 (1986)Zusammenfassung
A perfectly rational person is one who always has a good reason for what he does. Each step taken can be shown to be the best way to get to a well defined goal. Most of us like to think of ourselves as rational professionals. However, to many observers, the usual process of designing software appears quite irrational. Programmers start without a clear statement of desired behavior and implementation constraints. They make a long sequence of design decisions with no clear statement of why they do things the way they do. Their
rationale is rarely explained.
