Software Design: Tidy First?

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The Explore That Cannot Fail Is Not An Explore
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The Explore That Cannot Fail Is Not An Explore

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Kent Beck
Dec 17, 2024
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We’ve mentioned that one of the fruits of working in The Forest is that you’ll see lots of experiments. Folks will try lots of ideas (carefully, in reversible ways) & discard them because:

  • They didn’t work, in the sense of not having the desired outcome (change in user behavior) or impact (profit)

  • They worked, but the externalities were too large1

  • They work…

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