Software Design: Tidy First?

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Pattern: Your project can’t progress because you’re waiting on another project/team/organization/company.

Transformation: Break the dependency. What would happen if you did just enough work yourself?

In the name of efficiency we build elaborate structures of dependencies, never noticing that these lilliputian threads tie us down. The small gains because o…

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