Software Design: Tidy First?

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Thinkie: Measure Later

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Jan 16, 2024
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We continue to edge into systems thinking territory. Humans tend to look at what is easy to look at instead of what is important or that provides leverage. This Thinkie addresses that tendency.

Pattern: you’re stuck trying to improve a multi-step process

Transformation: what is something you could measure later in the process?

The classic example of this w…

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