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Essays from December 2005

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  1. The natural laws of software development

    When Newton “uncovered” the natural laws of motion he was just formalising something that was known but not formally understood at that time. The software industry is going through the same “uncovering” or natural laws and XP is our Newton. During many years the practices advocated by XP (Integrate often, Unit test, Collective code ownership, …

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