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Surprise Factory--Coupling: Why Software Costs So Damn Much
Thank you all for the feedback on the previous chapter. I think the result is much improved. This week we have the technical meat of the…
Mar 21
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Design is an Island
First published April 2009. This was a period when I was working consistently on the material that would become, a decade and a half later, Tidy First…
Mar 18
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Features & Design: Both Essential & Yet Mutually Exclusive
I got great feedback that the previous version of this chapter relied too heavily on analogies. Here it is written in a more straightforward style. If…
Mar 14
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Kent Beck
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The Open/Closed/Open Principle
First published June 2009. I still see folks making this mistake—”design good APIs”. Sure, fine, but what about when the APIs turn out not to be good…
Mar 12
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Features & Design: A Dance of Contrasts
Chapter 4 of The Surprise Factory
Mar 7
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Kent Beck
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February 2024
Money Shapes Design: The Economic Drivers of Software Development
Share this with you favorite executive. It’s the third chapter of the executive briefing on Tidy First? called The Surprise Factory. If they don’t want…
Feb 29
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Kent Beck
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Productive Compliments: Giving, Receiving, Connecting
First published July 25, 2018 An early reviewer pointed out that what follows depends substantially on acting from a position of privilege. Absolutely…
Feb 28
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The 3X Model - The Sensible Path to Chaos The Genesis of the 3X Model
Here is the draft of chapter 2 of the executive briefing on Tidy First?, called "The Surprise Factory. I want to alert executives to the options value…
Feb 22
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Kent Beck
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The Tale of Two Teams
First chapter of an executive briefing on Tidy First?
Feb 19
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Kent Beck
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Tidy First? in One Page
From the coming executive briefing
Feb 16
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Kent Beck
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Crazy Idea: Tidying Wrasse
The Cleaner Wrasse swims around other fish, eating parasites off their skin. The Tidying Wrasse is an LLM loaded with all the tidyings. It swims…
Feb 16
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Rent-a-Kent for "The Pleasure of Pattern"
You can find the companion model at https://rentakent.onrender.com/p/the-pleasure-of-pattern. Questions per post has been rising sharply (the co…
Feb 14
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Kent Beck
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