Software Design: Tidy First?

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Trigger: You have a multi-stage process with handoffs & you’d like to eliminate a handoff

Transformation: Look at the value realized by person handed off to. What would it take for someone else to realize that value earlier or later in the process?

The classic example is the relationship between developers & testers. (Note that this picture ignores the co…

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