creationism

Oren Tirosh oren@hishome.net
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 09:05:40 +0300


creationism n. 

  The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be
  completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of
  the void by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented
  programmers.  In fact, experience has shown repeatedly that good
  designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction
  between one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able
  designer(s) and an active user population -- and that the first try
  at a big new idea is always wrong.  Unfortunately, because these
  truths don't fit the planning models beloved of management, they are
  generally ignored.



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