Around Sunday, January 2, 2005, 10:34:04 AM, Ron Jeffries wrote:
> "Be effective." What kind of advice is that?
Does that come across as too harsh? I don't mean it to be. I do mean
to say, though, that the practices, as I envision them, are
behavioral dictates that -- if practiced -- will teach us things we
likely didn't know.
So "get all the tests run and still keep your code release to ten
minutes" might be such a thing: in trying to do it, we'll learn
something.
One of the things we might learn would be when and when not to live
within this rule, and I frankly expect that most of us would learn
something different from what we'd have predicted before trying the
ten minute rule.
Another thing we might learn would be a lot of ways to get good
tests that run fast. Again, we might not likely have learned that
had we not followed the vector.
We would be learning to be more effective ... but we would be
learning a new level of effectiveness, and new value to
effectiveness, that would have never come about had we just said "be
effective".
That's what I'm talkin' about.
Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
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