Submissions by KentBeck

Hand-Drawn Illustrations–A workflow argument

Programmers who create more files have those files modified by others more often

Should bugs be anti-holidays–infrequent and interruptive?

Developing Software in a Forest vs. a Desert

Why the Insurance Industry Rationally Fails Its Social Purpose

Product management is hosting a party, not playing chess

Humans >> Data – The Myth of Measuring Developer Productivity

TDD is Not Hill Climbing (except where it is)

Software design gets worse before it gets better

Not my money any more: Lessons from poker (2010)

TDD isn't software design, it's design *feedback

Coding in the Debugger (2007)

Timing software design: “Later, if that's responsible”

Publish Everything (Pretty Much)

Template for Impactful Ideas

Executive summary of bi-temporality–eventual business consistency

Emotions: A Code Book

Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots

Accounts/transactions enable you to replay history

Paint Drip People

More What, Less How: Coding with LLMs (but also every technical revolution ever)

I chose “empirical” to describe my style of software design

How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years

Software design also saves money by discouraging errors

Accountability is not blame (but easily becomes blame)