%0 Journal Article %1 376637 %A Parnas, David Lorge %A Clements, Paul C. %C Piscataway, NJ, USA %D 1986 %I IEEE Press %J IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering %K design fake how ieee paper process rational read:2008 why %N 2 %P 251-257 %T A rational design process: How and why to fake it %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=9800 %V 12 %X 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.

@article{376637, abstract = {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. }, added-at = {2008-07-01T15:32:11.000+0200}, address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA}, author = {Parnas, David Lorge and Clements, Paul C.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2e503584bdf5c7bdb0e8b57478a18225a/cschenk}, interhash = {07e3c942d8bc06cdcd8cb5ac3590258e}, intrahash = {e503584bdf5c7bdb0e8b57478a18225a}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, keywords = {design fake how ieee paper process rational read:2008 why}, number = 2, pages = {251-257}, publisher = {IEEE Press}, timestamp = {2008-07-01T15:32:32.000+0200}, title = {A rational design process: How and why to fake it}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=9800}, volume = 12, year = 1986 }