Creator of Extreme Programming

Kent Beck

Beck brought test-driven development and incremental design into the mainstream, and has written about the economics of small, safe structural changes.

Essential reading: Extreme Programming Explained
Test-Driven Development: By Example
Tidy First?
Models in this guide: 1

No. 128From the Masters
Make the Change Easy, Then Make the Easy Change
When a change is hard, first reshape the system so the change becomes easy.

Make the Change Easy, Then Make the Easy Change