Great Design

Fred Brooks in an interview with Wired:

“Great design does not come from great processes; it comes from great designers.”

This seems so natural and correct when talking about design. Applied to other professions, you might see:

  • Great software does not come from great processes; it comes from great developers.
  • Great engineering does not come from great processes; it comes from great engineers.
  • Great testing does not come from great processes; it comes from great testers.
  • Great management does not come from great processes; it comes from great managers.

Yet time and time again, we lean back on the processes that in the best of situations are mediocre and brittle.

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