Constraints on Software Design

I’m liking my new talk about Empirical Software Design. Here’s a short preview.

I was giving a talk at GOTO CPH & Dave Farley preceded me. He gave a clear, commandments-oriented presentation about when to do design. I thought okay so I don’t have to do that, but I can add some “why”. Here’s what I came up with.

There are 3 sets of constraints on design th…