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AoAD2 Practice: Simple Design

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. When writing code, Agile programmers often stop to ask themselves, “What’s the simplest thing that could possibly work?” Reflective Design. Incremental Design. As Martin Folwer said: [Venners 2002].

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

SpaceX was founded in 2002 with the goal of making access to space affordable by designing and launching low cost orbital rockets. The company has kept engineering cost low through a rapid design process that values learning by doing. From rigid and risk-adverse to agile, experimental, and adaptable.