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Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Agile Bridge Building -- A gently satirical look at agile software & extreme programming (XP) development philosophies.
"The Self-Realizing Project -- We have now embarked on Iterative Incremental Bridge Design (IIBD). A cornerstone of IIBD is how new design elements will suggest themselves the instant you begin building. For example, it is only by building this first section of the bridge that we are able to see that the log is not totally stable and could easily be washed away by changing water levels. So a team, perhaps a pair of bridge builders, may thus be intuitively assigned to rework, reinforce and better secure the first log to the embankment. These opportunities to "re-factor" elements of our design will present themselves often within the course of our bridge project and should be pursued relentlessly."
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