Forewordby Kenneth S. Rubin

In 1988, I was the first employee hired by ParcPlace Systems after the Smalltalk research team was spun out of Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). Our mission was to commercialize the use of object-oriented technology. During those early days of the object-technology movement, we often discussed writing a sort of recipe book to help companies get started with object technology. The idea was to collect the most important situations/issues that we saw companies encountering and present them as a set of patterns or recipes in the format, “If you find yourself in this situation, try doing the following. . . .” We never did write that particular book.

Fast-forward over 20 years to the era of agile development, and Mitch ...

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