The Properties of Enterprise Software That Lasts

"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Introduction Enterprise software is different from other software. Not in the technologies used to build it, not in the frameworks, not in the methodologies. It is different in its purpose: it must work correctly today, remain correct over time, survive the people who built it, and adapt to a business domain that will change in ways nobody can fully