Messy systems slow progress and increase costs--but tidying up isn't just an individual effort, it's a team responsibility. In this essential guide, author Kent Beck offers a practical framework for improving system design collaboratively. Building on the ideas from Tidy First?, this book shows teams how to balance changes to a system's behavior with improvements to its structure, ensuring smoother development, faster progress, and more effective collaboration. With a focus on teamwork, this book emphasizes not just fixing code but strengthening the human relationships that sustain system evolution.
Through thoughtful insights, real-world examples, and actionable practices, Beck teaches teams to alternate between tidying and building, minimizing risk while maintaining momentum. Learn how to make large changes safely, refine your team dynamics, and clear the path to sustainable system improvements with approaches that prioritize both people and code. Whether you're an individual contributor or leading a design team, you'll be equipped to design better systems--together.
| ISBN: | 9781098178765 |
| Publication date: | 2nd March 2027 |
| Author: | Kent Beck |
| Publisher: | O'Reilly Media |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 170 pages |
| Genres: |
Computer programming / software engineering Systems analysis and design Computer architecture and logic design |
Messy systems slow progress and increase costs--but tidying up isn't just an individual effort, it's a team responsibility. In this essential guide, author Kent Beck offers a practical framework for improving system design collaboratively. Building on the ideas from Tidy First?, this book shows teams how to balance changes to a system's behavior with improvements to its structure, ensuring smoother development, faster progress, and more effective collaboration. With a focus on teamwork, this book emphasizes not just fixing code but strengthening the human relationships that sustain system evolution.
Through thoughtful insights, real-world examples, and actionable practices, Beck teaches teams to alternate between tidying and building, minimizing risk while maintaining momentum. Learn how to make large changes safely, refine your team dynamics, and clear the path to sustainable system improvements with approaches that prioritize both people and code. Whether you're an individual contributor or leading a design team, you'll be equipped to design better systems--together.
Augmented Software Design features in the following genres: Computer programming / software engineering, Systems analysis and design, Computer architecture and logic design
Augmented Software Design is available in Paperback
Augmented Software Design was written by Kent Beck and published by O'Reilly Media
Augmented Software Design has 170 pages
£28.79