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7/21/2026
Less Art, More Engineering: It Wasn't Measurement

Less Art, More Engineering: It Wasn't Measurement

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The author revisits a 2.5-year-old thesis that software development lacks engineering rigor, admitting the proposed cure (measurement) was wrong. The real solution turned out to be determinism: deriving architecture decisions through fixed procedures from stated requirements rather than subjective judgment. A procedure that takes SLOs and derives architecture through rules eliminates taste-based debates entirely.

  • •Author admits measurement was the wrong cure for subjective software decisions
  • •Determinism, not metrics, is what makes decisions objective and reproducible
  • •Architecture can be derived from SLOs via fixed rules, eliminating taste-based arguments

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