Software Design: Tidy First?

Tidy Together Chapter: Long-Running Design Changes

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Oct 30, 2024
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I published the first half of this a month ago. Finally finished it. The social media diet seems to be working! Now to figure out what to write next…

Mixing Design & Features—Experiment, Initiate, Sustain, Abandon, & Finish

In Tidy First? we talked a lot about the timing of tidying. We had the "tidy first" flow, where design happened just before the imple…

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