Lehman's 5th law of software evolution

Lehman's 5th law of software evolution

Lehman's 5th law of software evolution

Lehman's 5th law of software evolution

As an E-type system evolves, all associated with it, developers, sales personnel and users, for example, must maintain mastery of its content and behaviour to achieve satisfactory evolution. Excessive growth diminishes that mastery. Hence the average incremental growth remains invariant as the system evolves.