I've been accused of undermining the design process. And yes, I do. Here's why.
Reason 1: I operate in an environment where most of the design choices have been made for me already. They have been made in sensible ways -- probably better than if me and my team would go and make them.
In Code Complete, McConnell goes in great depth into how spending time up-front designing the architecture, the sub-systems, and the components of each sub-system of a software project pays off handsomely because it costs less to change a design or design document than to re-write ...
