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Peter
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How many Ws for architects?
I found an interesting article about Five More Ws for Good Journalism
Friday, January 19, 2001
Five More Ws for Good Journalism
(NYPA)
Journalists are taught the five Ws just as first graders are taught the ABCs. The five Ws are: Who, What, When, Where and Why. Reporters know that their stories should answer those basic questions. If one is missing, the story is probably incomplete.
But Glen Dromgoole, editor of the Abilene, Texas, Reporter-News, says there are at least five other Ws that good journalism ought to stress.
That made me think about which Ws are important for an Architect:
- Who and What?
- How many?
- Where?
- When?
- How?
- Why?
- We!
- Wow!
- Watch!
- Show!
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Peter
Living by Design: How Training is the Enemy of Learning
Focussing only on what is “known”, training tends to emphasize the status quo and stifle innovation.
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Peter
Vasco Duarte of the Software Development Today weblog sums up why separation of design and requirements may have destroyed more software projects than waterfall…
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Peter
Waterfall model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The waterfall model is a sequential software development model (a process for the creation of software) in which development is seen as flowing steadily downwards (like a waterfall) through the phases of requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing (validation), integration, and maintenance. The origin of the term “waterfall” is often cited to be an article published in 1970 by Winston W. Royce (1929–1995),[1] although Royce did not use the term “waterfall” in this article. Ironically, Royce was presenting this model as an example of a flawed, non-working model (Royce 1970).
Together with the paper on MANAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS by Winston W. Royce this is an interesting read.
