The Agile Samurai

Create and Share a Common Domain Language

When the words used in your software don’t match those used by business, you can get into all sorts of trouble.

• The wrong abstractions get built into the software (business will think location means one thing, while developers will interpret it to mean something else).

• The software becomes harder to change (because the words that appear on the screen don’t match those used to store it in the database).

• You end up with more bugs and higher maintenance costs (because the team has to work extra hard when making changes to the software).

To avoid this dysfunction, create a common language that you ...