creation

n 1: the human act of creating

2: something that has been brought into existence by someone

3: the event that occured at the beginning of something; "from

its creation the plan was doomed to failure" [syn: {conception}]

4: starting something for the first time [syn: {initiation}, {founding},

{foundation}, {institution}, {origination}, {instauration}]

5: (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence

[syn: {Creation}]

6: everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution

of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence" [syn: {universe},

{existence}, {nature}, {world}, {cosmos}, {macrocosm}]

creationism

The (false) belief that large, innovative software designs can

be completely specified in advance and then painlessly

magicked out of the void by the normal efforts of a team of

normally talented programmers. In fact, experience has shown

repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary,

exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small

handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user

population - and that the first try at a big new idea is

always wrong. Unfortunately, because these truths don't fit

the planning models beloved of {management}, they are

generally ignored.

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