Software Design: Tidy First?

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The next section of Thinkies relate to project management. Taylorism has gifted us a set of dysfunctional assumptions about projects. Since these assumptions are mostly unspoken, it takes relatively little effort to come up with better ideas. (See Mary Parker Follett Dynamic Administration for an antidote.)

Pattern: the team is doing things in parallel

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