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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback, Third Edition
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback, Third Edition

by Sam Guckenheimer, Neno Loje
September 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 14m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback, Third Edition

6. Development

Working software over comprehensive documentation.

—The Agile Manifesto1

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Figure 6.1. Newton’s Cradle is a common desktop toy. When you apply force from one end, the balls swing in a predictable, regular motion. When you add a force from the opposite end, the balls start bouncing chaotically against each other. It is a metaphor for development practice. Simple, directional force encourages predictability, whereas contradictory forces can create chaos.

This chapter is not about programming languages or design patterns. These important topics are well covered in many other books. Instead, this chapter is about getting that code into ...

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