Maxims of Software Engineering

You may have heard of these invoked before. They've been articulated across the decades in books and blogs and conference talks. They are in the DNA and culture of software engineering; sayings, principles, and ideas that have survived.

This is a compilation of them.

• Brooks' law
• Chesterton's fence
• Conway's law
• Deming's law
• Galls' law
• Goodhart's law
• Parkinson's law
• Parkinson's law of triviality