Software Design: Tidy First?

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Fixed Equity Grants Become Toxic

Accountability in Software Development

No-compensation Ratings

Ratings as Incentives

Incentives Change Marginal Behavior

Change

Authority, Responsibility, Blame, Accountability

Make It Run, Make It Right II

Geek Incentives Manifesto Expanded

Jocelyn Goldfein Hits the House

Collaboration Incentives

Make it Run, Make it Right

Lumpers & Splitters

Waze Founder's Comments, Space of All Incentive Systems

Patterns of Performance Review & Compensation

Incentives Not To Invest In Structure

Follow the Incentives, Waze Edition

Incentives >>> Money

Geek Incentives Clubhouse Debut with Keith Adams

Beneficially Relating Teensy-tiny Elements

Mysteries of Geek Incentives

It's Not Programming

The Geek Incentives Manifesto

Structure & Behavior PRs

Structure & Behavior

Beneficial Relationships

Elements All The Way Down

Software Design Dilemmas: A Survey

Chunk Size

Discuss fixed tidying budget

30% Tidying?

Mind-sized Chunks

Welcome to "Tidy First?"

Software design is an exercise in human relationships.

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