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Alex Bunardzic's avatar

This is the best piece of writing I read this year. I'll be coming back to it to clarify my own thinking.

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Terry Yin's avatar

1. "Make it work; make it right; make it fast"

2. The Four Rules of Simple Design

3. User Stories: I'm not certain if you originated the term, but I recall hearing you adopt this concept after Ward's "Episode" method. Your early explanation remains my favorite: “I imagined a user grabbing another user in the hallway and saying, ‘I gotta tell you about this wonderful new thing the application does...’ Stories are the stories customers wish they could tell about the system but can’t (yet).”

4. Collective Ownership

5. ATDD*: Whether or not you coined this term (really bad name, BTW), it has been pivotal to my daily work. The concept was later refined to "Specification by Examples" by Gojko.

6. TCR / Limbo: recently when my colleague and I saw the google IDX idea, we were like "wow, Kent's Limbo is coming closer"

7. TPS: My introduction to TPS was through you, and it led me down a 20-year rabbit hole of exploration, providing both deep insights and meaningful friendships. You guided me to the source, bypassing the Western interpretations, unlike the Lean or software Lean.

8. Behaviour - Structure

9. Reversibility

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Could you please confirm my understanding of your involvement in User Story? And perhaps also ATDD. Thanks!

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