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Essential Design Tips
Follow these four tips to advance your software designs toward adaptable, robust software architectures.
by Jason Byassee

Posted October 15, 2003

Many project managers place good coding skills at the top of their priority list for employee experience. I would argue that design skills are far more important, because software design has the most prominent lifecycle implications. The ability to develop robust software designs differs vastly from the ability to program proficiently.

Software design is difficult, in part because designs can be tested only to an extent. The future of every software development project includes evolving requirements. Ideally, today's design will adapt to meet the changing needs of tomorrow. Here are several design tips that, when kept at the forefront, will advance software designs toward adaptable, robust software architectures:




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