Timeline for When systems get larger and larger, how do you keep a global understanding of your system?
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| Sep 3, 2014 at 23:24 | vote | accept | Philipp Claßen | ||
| Sep 3, 2014 at 23:23 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Yep, that's how you get them done: by requiring them. | |
| Sep 3, 2014 at 23:22 | comment | added | Philipp Claßen | Thank you. "... we do our best to create these artifacts. They are, in fact, required elements of the overall software product". I think that is a crucial aspect. It has to be a natural part of the development. Otherwise, you will feel the pain when you working on unfamiliar code bases, but the ones that work on them regularly do not feel this pain. Often they do not see the need to document the "obvious" things. | |
| Sep 3, 2014 at 23:21 | history | edited | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 12 characters in body |
| Sep 3, 2014 at 23:20 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @Telastyn: I could probably write a few pages about that, under the banner of "sensible architecture." That said, I added a little clarification to my answer. | |
| Sep 3, 2014 at 23:17 | comment | added | Telastyn | One missing point that I've found to be key is consistency. I don't need to know how a part of the system works if I can trust that it is implemented in a sane manner, consistent with what I expect. The problem isn't that people don't know the details of a system, it's that they guess (very) wrong about its details. This separation of sub teams with communication between also helps communicate culture and standards across the group. | |
| Sep 3, 2014 at 23:06 | history | edited | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 2 characters in body |
| Sep 3, 2014 at 23:00 | history | edited | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 62 characters in body |
| Sep 3, 2014 at 22:52 | history | answered | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |