Software Design: Tidy First?

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Management Section Intro: Tidy Together Chapter

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In Tidy First? we explored managing tidyings—those small, safe design changes you make on your own. The challenges there were mostly personal: When do you start? When do you stop? How do you maintain rhythm between tidying and implementing features?

Now we face a more complex challenge. The refactorings in Part I of this book operate at a different scale…

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