How To Avoid Big Upfront Design

Big up-front design is dumb. No up-front design is dumber! So how do we get it right? How do we design great software? Agile software development is all about maintaining our ability to change our minds as we learn more. In reality, complex systems never spring fully-formed from the minds of their creators. So how do we work to allow our software to grow as we learn? In this episode, Dave Farley, author of “Continuous Delivery” and “Modern Software Engineering” describes how to avoid big up-front design, but also how to do enough design to make progress safely and allow us the freedom to learn and adapt our designs as we learn. Taking a more evolutionary approach to design helps us to make good progress even when we don’t yet have all of the answers. _____________________________________________________ 🚨 My "TDD & BDD: DESIGN THROUGH TESTING" Course is Available NOW! 🚨 Learn to write great tests, and how to use those tests to improve the design of your software: with step-by-step guidance and demos by Dave Farley, and practical exercises for you to learn TDD and BDD. Available to start now! ENROL HERE 👉 bit.ly/3JB5smY _____________________________________________________ 📚 BOOKS: 📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is now available here ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 In this book, Dave brings together his ideas and proven techniques to describe a durable, coherent and foundational approach to effective software development, for programmers, managers and technical leads, at all levels of experience. 📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines 📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx NOTE: If you click on one of the Amazon Affiliate links and buy the book, Continuous Delivery Ltd. will get a small fee for the recommendation with NO increase in cost to you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 📧 JOIN CD MAIL LIST 📧 Keep up to date with the latest discussions, free "How To..." guides, events, online courses and exclusive offers. ➡️ https://bit.ly/MailListCD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANNEL SPONSORS: Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0 Octopus are the makers of Octopus Deploy the single place for your team to manage releases, automate deployments, and automate the runbooks that keep your software operating. ➡️ https://octopus.com/ SpecFlow Behavior Driven Development for .NET SpecFlow helps teams bind automation to feature files and share the resulting examples as Living Documentation across the team and stakeholders. ➡️ https://go.specflow.org/dave_farley