Software Design: Tidy First?

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Thinkie: Perfect Setup

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Kent Beck
Oct 15, 2024
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Pattern: you’re having trouble making progress in a situation.

Transformation: list the properties that would set the situation up perfectly for success. Back off only reluctantly.

Too often the reason we’re not making progress isn’t our effort, but our context. We get used to the proverbial pebble in our shoe & complain about our walking speed instead of…

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