I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code”: A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft®

Chapter 6. Software Design If We Have Time

In this chapter:
September 1, 2001: “A tragedy of error handling”
February 1, 2002: “Too many cooks spoil the broth—Sole authority”
May 1, 2004: “Resolved by design”
February 1, 2006: “The other side of quality—Designers and architects”
August 1, 2006: “Blessed isolation—Better design”
November 1, 2007: “Software performance: What are you waiting for?”
April 1, 2008: “At your service”
August 1, 2008: “My experiment worked! (Prototyping)”
February 1, 2009: “Green fields are full of maggots”

One of the basic questions an engineering leader has to answer is, “What software development improvement would have the largest impact on the quality and value of our products?” My initial response would be broad ...