I agree that many teams, in an effort to move away from waterfall development and Big Design Up Front, have gone the opposite way and completely skip system des

I agree that many teams, in an effort to move away from waterfall development and Big Design Up Front, have gone the opposite way and completely skip system design. Which is a mistake, because you need some upfront design. As Dave Thomas said: “big upfront design is dumb. No upfront design is dumber”.