Developer Laws
Dave Kerr (via Gus Mueller):
There are lots of laws which people discuss when talking about development. This repository is a reference and overview of some of the most common ones.
For example: Amdahl’s Law about optimization, Brooks’ Law about staffing, and Tesler’s Law about complexity, along with principles such as the Liskov Substitution Principle, YAGNI, and The Fallacies of Distributed Computing.
A possible addition: the Lindy Effect.
Update (2020-03-27): Ryan Reeves:
Some great “laws.”
Stein’s Law: “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
Betteridge’s Law: “Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’”
Shirky Principle: “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
Update (2020-07-30): See also: Laws for hackers to live by.
Update (2021-03-02): See also: 10 Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore (via Hacker News).
Update (2022-03-09): Tim Sommer (via Hacker News):
In this post I am going to share my collection, interpretation and thoughts on the most famous and most used laws in Software Development.
