Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to pairing, test-first, incremental design, continuous integration and so on because they support the values.
Make it work, make it right, make it fast. - Kent Beck
Make it work, make it right, make it fast.
- Kent Beck
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment. - Kent Beck
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.
If you're having trouble succeeding, fail. - Kent Beck
If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.
A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen. - Kent Beck
A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.
The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to… - Kent Beck
The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to…
Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature. - Kent Beck
Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.
Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excel… - Kent Beck
Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excel…
Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility. - Kent Beck
Testing is not the point. The point is about responsibility.
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. - Kent Beck
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
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