Laws of Software Engineering
Dr Milan Milanović
About the book
Dr Milan Milanović is a Serbian technology executive (CTO) and the creator of the popular “Tech World with Milan” newsletter and developer community, which has grown to more than 400,000 members. This book, his debut authorial work, compiles more than 63 well-known laws and principles from software engineering — from Conway’s Law and Brooks’s Law to Parkinson’s Law and principles like DRY and KISS. It is organized into seven sections covering architecture, teams, planning, code quality, scalability, and cognitive biases in decision-making. It is aimed at developers and technical leaders looking for a concise, practical overview of decades of accumulated engineering wisdom.
