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The better the design the less the maintenance. There might not be a perfect design in the real world, and we would agree on that. But at least the ideal perfec
by cgio 9y ago
The better the design the less the maintenance. There might not be a perfect design in the real world, and we would agree on that. But at least the ideal perfect design would imply zero maintenance.
- blowski 9y agoWhat happens if requirements change? What happens if a related technology is invented which would make your current design more efficient? Do you class changes like that under maintenance? And how do you check your theoretically 'no-maintenance-required' design genuinely doesn't need any maintenance? And how do you get round the catch 22 that you can't build a perfect system without perfect knowledge about what to build, but you can't have perfect knowledge without feedback from an existing system? Instead of building a product that theoretically never needs maintenance, I'd rather build a product for which maintenance is easy.
- tormeh 9y agoWell, maintenance is what you do to avoid (negative) change. Changing requirements or improvements are not maintenance.