Naming things is hard. Witness things that developers have named and then struggle to explain because words and people are weird:
- TDD sounds like it’s about testing, but it’s really a design technique.
- BDD sounds like it’s about what code does, but it’s really a communication discipline.
- Outside-in development sounds like a way to discover the design of software, but it’s really a technique for building software using a fractal todo list.
Bonus developer weirdness not about words: If you can’t decompose an idea into a todo list, you’ve got an initiative, not a project. Be afraid, keep digging at the idea until you can make it a todo list.
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