Software Design Principles(2 Brooks, Curtis: Successful software development often depends on small number of exceptional designers who think on a system level Curtis: Such people might not be particularly good programmers Design problem: How to decompose system into parts each with a lower complexity than system as a whole while minimizing interaction between the parts such that the parts together solve the problem No universal way of doing thisc Copyright Nancy Leveson, Sept. 1999 Software Design Principles (2) Brooks, Curtis: Successful software development often depends on small number of exceptional designers who "think on a system level." Curtis: Such people might not be particularly good programmers. Design problem: How to decompose system into parts each with a lower complexity than system as a whole while minimizing interaction between the parts such that the parts together solve the problem. No universal way of doing this. �