Comments on: Design and Architecture: Is Good Design Worth The Effort? http://www.sheysrebellion.net/blog/2008/06/04/design-and-architecture-is-good-design-worth-the-effort/ I sleep with pillows on my head. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:03:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Shey http://www.sheysrebellion.net/blog/2008/06/04/design-and-architecture-is-good-design-worth-the-effort/comment-page-1/#comment-20739 Shey Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:41:24 +0000 http://www.sheysrebellion.net/blog/2008/06/04/design-and-architecture-is-good-design-worth-the-effort/#comment-20739 Mehroz, You bring up a good point, design is ignored to due deadlines, companies are more than willing to waste developer productivity (read: money) in the long run for a quick profit. I believe this is because they don't realize how much money they're losing, they rather bleed away nickels and dimes for their entire life than a $100 at once. Mehroz,

You bring up a good point, design is ignored to due deadlines, companies are more than willing to waste developer productivity (read: money) in the long run for a quick profit. I believe this is because they don’t realize how much money they’re losing, they rather bleed away nickels and dimes for their entire life than a $100 at once.

]]> By: Mehroz http://www.sheysrebellion.net/blog/2008/06/04/design-and-architecture-is-good-design-worth-the-effort/comment-page-1/#comment-20731 Mehroz Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:06:46 +0000 http://www.sheysrebellion.net/blog/2008/06/04/design-and-architecture-is-good-design-worth-the-effort/#comment-20731 Totally agreed. A good design in an earlier phase can save you tons of time and effort later. Unfortunately design efforts are often ignored due to deadlines and other constraints. I know of a poorly designed project that has been in execution for more than couple of years. The project has now wrapped up with so many fixes (each creating possibilities of new bugs) that it is now consuming full working hours of 2-3 personnel. I am pretty sure that if we re-design its architecture, it would relieve everyone but the client isn't willing to do this now. Such scenarios aren't rare in software industry. Totally agreed. A good design in an earlier phase can save you tons of time and effort later. Unfortunately design efforts are often ignored due to deadlines and other constraints. I know of a poorly designed project that has been in execution for more than couple of years. The project has now wrapped up with so many fixes (each creating possibilities of new bugs) that it is now consuming full working hours of 2-3 personnel. I am pretty sure that if we re-design its architecture, it would relieve everyone but the client isn’t willing to do this now. Such scenarios aren’t rare in software industry.

]]> By: Meraj Rasool http://www.sheysrebellion.net/blog/2008/06/04/design-and-architecture-is-good-design-worth-the-effort/comment-page-1/#comment-20724 Meraj Rasool Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:35:27 +0000 http://www.sheysrebellion.net/blog/2008/06/04/design-and-architecture-is-good-design-worth-the-effort/#comment-20724 Agreed on most of the points. Though, there are some tiny projects in which some time we have to forget about design. Though, it would be a very good idea to write every code like poetry. Everything should be designed / write according to the principles. I have been working on a pretty large project for a client. That project has been written in PHP and we have strongly used Zend Framework. When our client requests or complains about any issue, due to the good design of the application, it is very easy for me to fix / add anything to that. So a good design helps me in maintaining and scaling the application fast. Now the next post should be on adding comments / documentation to your code. Agreed on most of the points. Though, there are some tiny projects in which some time we have to forget about design. Though, it would be a very good idea to write every code like poetry. Everything should be designed / write according to the principles.

I have been working on a pretty large project for a client. That project has been written in PHP and we have strongly used Zend Framework. When our client requests or complains about any issue, due to the good design of the application, it is very easy for me to fix / add anything to that. So a good design helps me in maintaining and scaling the application fast.

Now the next post should be on adding comments / documentation to your code.

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