October 23, 2011
The Mythical Man-Month

You wouldn’t think anything new could be said about this classic work. But I particularly liked this bullet point:

System architects once were the people who said “no” to features to maintain design consistency and coherency. Now architects are the people who buy and bring in external frameworks and technologies (killing any chance of consistency or coherency). Kind of like the Fahrenheit 451 quote “I remember firemen used to fight fires.”