The Nature of Software Development

Chapter 9Full Circle

1. Value is what we want. Features deliver value. Delivering features early gives us value sooner.

2. Managing by looking at value works better than managing by dates or artifacts that don’t deliver value.

3. Planning features is easy enough to do. Estimate if you must. Selecting the work based on Yesterday’s Weather works better.

4. Building by features requires us to build a small, complete product, every couple of weeks. That product must always work correctly, and it must always be well designed.

5. Development must deliver real working features. The product must be well tested. Business-side people and developers contribute to testing. The product must be well designed. Developers keep the design alive all the time.

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