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creationism
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n. The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can be
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completely specified in advance and then painlessly magicked out of the void
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by the normal efforts of a team of normally talented programmers. In fact,
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experience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from
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evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small
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handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user population and
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that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong. Unfortunately, because
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these truths don't fit the planning models beloved of management , they are
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generally ignored.
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