Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development Book Review

This book is a gold mine of wisdom. This book contains a ton of wisdom that has come out of the software engineering field over the years. It brings together a lot of software development best practices that can be found in other resources and puts them together under the umbrella of Emergent Design. He covers patterns, principles, processes, and practices by presenting the best of each that has been proven to work again and again.  The common sense communicated out of this book is priceless. The author has a presentation that touches on a lot of the content found in the book. It can be viewed here. Forward thinking is something that I find lacking in a lot of the environments I am exposed too, especially development environments.  This book nails how to do forward thinking when it comes to software design and development.  You will end up making your solutions more valuable with each change, instead of degrading them with each change if you follow the advice in this book. If you do development, this is a must read.  I would advise all team leads to get rid of anyone who has not read this book by the end of the year.