AoAD2 Practice: Simple Design
James Shore
APRIL 16, 2021
In the second edition of Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck provides four criteria for evaluating the simplicity of a design: [Beck 2004]. It doesn’t matter how brilliant and elegant a piece of design is; if the people who need to work with it don’t understand it, it isn’t simple for them. Beck on Simplicity.
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