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To Test or Not to Test? That’s a Good Question
First published August 2014. For context JUnit Max was a commercial product I produced that is still the best test runner I’ve ever used. It gave…
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Getting There From Here
Getting ramped up to write book 2 & I keep thinking of book 3 topics. I’ll record them with you so I have them some place & so you know a bit about what…
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March 2024

TDD's Missing Skill: Behavioral Composition
I appreciate Mr. Zakharchenko’s extensive critique of TDD even as I have some reservations regarding his language. He tried TDD. He thought about it. He…
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Surprise Factory--Coupling: Why Software Costs So Damn Much
Thank you all for the feedback on the previous chapter. I think the result is much improved. This week we have the technical meat of the…
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Design is an Island
First published April 2009. This was a period when I was working consistently on the material that would become, a decade and a half later, Tidy First…
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Features & Design: Both Essential & Yet Mutually Exclusive
I got great feedback that the previous version of this chapter relied too heavily on analogies. Here it is written in a more straightforward style. If…
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The Open/Closed/Open Principle
First published June 2009. I still see folks making this mistake—”design good APIs”. Sure, fine, but what about when the APIs turn out not to be good…
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Features & Design: A Dance of Contrasts
Chapter 4 of The Surprise Factory
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February 2024

Money Shapes Design: The Economic Drivers of Software Development
Share this with you favorite executive. It’s the third chapter of the executive briefing on Tidy First? called The Surprise Factory. If they don’t want…
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Productive Compliments: Giving, Receiving, Connecting
First published July 25, 2018 An early reviewer pointed out that what follows depends substantially on acting from a position of privilege. Absolutely…
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The 3X Model - The Sensible Path to Chaos The Genesis of the 3X Model
Here is the draft of chapter 2 of the executive briefing on Tidy First?, called "The Surprise Factory. I want to alert executives to the options value…
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