Balancing Features and Systems Improvements - The Good News Factory by Kent Beck

This week Carter and Nathan read the Kent Beck's The Good News Factory. A sequel to Tidy First?, The Good News Factory explores the economics of software and instructs tech executives on how to produce teams that are constantly delivering good news. Join them as they discuss balancing feature development and systems improvment, the economic incentives of software, and more!

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00:00 Intro

12:23 About the Book

14:08 Thoughts on the Book

16:24 Features, Structure, Coupling, and Cohesion

33:13 Responding to Organizational Changes

42:12 3X: Explore, Expand, and Extract

56:54 Final Thoughts

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