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		amelius on July 13, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Professional Software Development > The separation of design and construction into phases is a hangover from civil engineering. Yes and it is a pretty good principle. The last thing you want in a software project is a design which changes all the time.

nickbauman on July 22, 2016 [–]

Except a design that doesn't change after a certain arbitrary phase of a project simply guarantees your best outcome will be to deliver what the customer said they wanted once upon a time.

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