Software Design: Tidy First?

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Thinkie: And Then…

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Kent Beck
Jul 23, 2024
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Pattern: You have a potential decision to evaluate.

Transformation: Ask, “…and then?”

Change -> and then?

“We need more productivity. Let’s set higher goals for the number of lines of code programmers write per day.”

We all know how this ends. And yet, and yet, I have personally witnessed the introduction of line counts to performance evaluation at a large, highly respected e…

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