The Trip-Packing Dilemma

  • Authors:
  • Andy Hunt;Dave Thomas

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A guiding principle behind agile software development is the idea of keeping things simple. Making life simpler is an admirable goal, but unfortunately many developers have a knack for making one of two errors: oversimplifying something that really is complex; and overcomplicating something that should be easy. The paper considers how Extreme Programming attacks over-embellishment with the YAGNI (you aren't gonna need it) principle.