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Here is the synopsis of ideas for the design phase of the project from “Dynamics of Software Development” book. Getting the best ideas expressed and available for analysis is the hardest part of the design process. Unity of purpose: Having a theme for the product means that you eliminate or at least minimize orthogonal values. This reduction can be a painful process, and yes it involves risk. But once you decide what the theme is, you have to sacrifice other qualities that don’t support the theme. Even if they are qualities you cherish that are expressive of your fondest and longest help beliefs.Here the author is clearly indicating the need for the mainline customer scenarios. The need to understand these scenarios by the whole team is essential as the need for them comes in many many meetings during the course of the project. examples Bug triage. How do you choose between fixing a bug and releasing your product? Performance scenarios What are the scenarios you need to o...

I finished reading A Painted House . Luke tells us the story of a rural farm life in Arkansas in early 50′s. Luke is a seven year old who lives on the family with his parents and grand parents. Baseball is his passion and he follows the cardinal games only from a single radio in the house. The dinner table conversations takes us into the family life in those days. Luke’s family gets all of their vegetables from the garden. Luke’s mother helped create and maintain the garden. How nice if you can do this for real, I miss the taste of fresh vegetables that are grown in ones own garden without any pesticides. The family works on cotton fields and employs two different groups of people to help. One group is Mexicans who come from Mexico every cotton picking season. The other is hill people who live in Ozark mountains and come to farm. Throughout the story the author gives a realistic description of many facets on farm life. Their single truck, the Sunday church, women gossip,dinner c...