Software Design: Tidy First?

Thinkies

Thinkie: Survivable?

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Kent Beck
Dec 10, 2024
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Luca Delanna’s book Ergodicity spawned (or brought into focus) a bunch of Thinkies for me. This is the root.

Pattern: You are stuck making a decision.

Transformation: Ask if the negative outcome is survivable. Either:

  • The negative outcome is survivable, in which case do the quickest, cheapest thing that generates value (information, time, or other resource…

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