"A week of coding can save on 30 minutes of planning" :D
My buddy once said "Writing great code is easy, it's the coming up with it part that's hard".
But seriously, I agree with the need to reducing complexity, I always go back to telling folks that old adage about the human brain only having RAM for like 5 things.
To this end, I think TDD is helpful, even if you have to write a couple of tests that will ultimately be rewritten - it's a way to leave a breadcrumb to return to later without sweating about it too much. It's an unfortunate fact often missed in TDD talk that to write proper specifications, you need to have some code for things to start falling into place. It's an iterative process - stumble about a bit, drop some breadcrumbs, hit on the core behavior and the structure you want for it, specify that, get something working, return to breadcrumbs.
It's a sort of journey from the very detailed out to the most overarching and back again, but now with a clue about what needs to be built, and how.
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"A week of coding can save on 30 minutes of planning" :D
My buddy once said "Writing great code is easy, it's the coming up with it part that's hard".
But seriously, I agree with the need to reducing complexity, I always go back to telling folks that old adage about the human brain only having RAM for like 5 things.
To this end, I think TDD is helpful, even if you have to write a couple of tests that will ultimately be rewritten - it's a way to leave a breadcrumb to return to later without sweating about it too much. It's an unfortunate fact often missed in TDD talk that to write proper specifications, you need to have some code for things to start falling into place. It's an iterative process - stumble about a bit, drop some breadcrumbs, hit on the core behavior and the structure you want for it, specify that, get something working, return to breadcrumbs.
It's a sort of journey from the very detailed out to the most overarching and back again, but now with a clue about what needs to be built, and how.