Rapid Application Development / Advanced Excel Development

VBA Best Practice

There is a lot of information floating around about how to get various things done in VBA, how to make the best use, or sometimes just the most use of VBA and Excel.
This section aims to add an element of Quality and Best Practices. These are just general guidelines, a professional developer will always assess the options and make the appropriate choice in their specific situation.
These suggestions are specific to Excel VBA in commercial settings, many will not translate to other technologies or other settings.

VBA Best Practice Series

Fundamental Imperative

The fundamental imperative is quite simply to manage complexity, a theme repeated in many walks of life. Without this focus complexity rapidly gets out of control.

• Manage complexity (McConnell)
• Solution complexity grows at 4 x the rate of problem complexity. (Glass)
• [Things] should be as simple as they can be, but no simpler (Einstein)
• K.I.S.S.
• This principle should drive all other work.
• Easier to build, easier to test, easier to document, easier to use, etc. There should be no conflict