Software Development Priorities, Values

in that order…

• Readability
  • try to let every change make it easier, quicker to understand, learn, remember
• Maintainability
• Changeability, evolutionary design
  • try to let every change make it cheaper to modify in the future
  • (including evolutionary db design)

.
.
.

• writeability,  speed  of  writing  new  code
  • code is read much more often than it is written
  • software devs spend most of their time trying to understand code