2024-03-28
John Gall's book

Gall’s Law

Today, I discovered an interesting law, Gall’s law from John Gall. Le’s discover how it can be applied to programming.

John Gall in its book Systemantics: How Systems Really Work and How They Fail. states :

“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 up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.”

This quote is relevant even after 1975 its date of writing. Successful is written first as a simple system. Moreover, a simple system is probably conceived by a person that needs its system, not an engineer. We need to people to write their own and at a point, we can make them evolve to enterprise-grade solutions. But skipping this step and you will have software promised to be a failure.

 

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Sylvain Leroy

Senior Software Quality Manager and Solution Architect in Switzerland, I have previously created my own company, Tocea, in Software Quality Assurance. Now I am offering my knowledge and services in a small IT Consulting company : Byoskill and a website www.byoskill.com Currently living in Lausanne (CH)

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