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Second-system effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In computing, the second-system effect or sometimes the second-system syndrome refers to the tendency, when following on from a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, to design the succ...
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The Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An excerpt from Brooks’ Mythical Man-Month ... The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one. The result, as Ovid says, is a “big pile.” ... The Wabe → Personal Notebook → Brooks on the Second System Effect...
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Navigation for Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Avoiding the Second System Effect in Software Development ... One of the valuable ideas from Frederick Brooks' classic The Mythical Man Month is the notion of the second system effect when designing software systems. The following is an excerpt from the book where the concept...
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This (The Second-System Effect) is the title of chapter 5, where Brooks describes it: ... "The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one."
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second-system effect (Sometimes, more euphoniously, ... Definition: second-system effect ... second-system effect (Sometimes, more euphoniously, "second-system syndrome") When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design...
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Symptoms of Second-System Effect Functional Embellishment to an unnecessary degree Optimizations to obsolete functionality OS/360 linker had sophisticated program overlay functionality The problem: the application architecture no longer depended on overlays!
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second-system effect /n./ (sometimes, more euphoniously, `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an elephantine feature-laden monstrosity.
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Visual languages offer great leverage when there is a close match between the visual abstraction and the system being modeled. Lab View is an outstanding example in the process control domain. ER models provide data modelers a powerful visual notation for conceptual modeling of the schema.
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Nov 25, 2009 ... Second system effect. November 25, 2009. I'm pretty happy with my bike light, but gosh darn it, it could be better! ...
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