Faking It
Faking It
- “The Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake it”
- by David L. Parnas and Paul C. Clements
- The Bad News
- we will never find a process that allows us to design software in a perfectly rational way
- The Good News
- we can fake it
- we can present our system to others as if we had been rational designers
- it pays to pretend to have been rational during development and maintenance