Atomic Spin :: Elements of Software

Agile myth buster of the day: Nothing’s wrong with spending some time doing up-front design. In fact we almost always do it for anything bigger than a small class. We do it with our pair partner, or sometimes together with the whole team. It usually takes an hour or two, and often involves a whiteboard or some cards. It’s always followed shortly thereafter by converting the design to code. Every so often it creates a diagram we favor and squirrel away in the project docs directory.