Systemantics¶
Gall, J. (1977). Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail.
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Primes¶
- Gall's Law
- In software engineering and product development, large from-scratch rewrites of complex working software repeatedly fail, while working successors emerge from incremental evolution or from a working minimum grown through iteration; "you can't ship a rewrite" is the developer-folklore form.
This sourceStates Gall's Law — a complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked; a complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched into working.
- In software engineering and product development, large from-scratch rewrites of complex working software repeatedly fail, while working successors emerge from incremental evolution or from a working minimum grown through iteration; "you can't ship a rewrite" is the developer-folklore form.
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