Workshop: Tweet"Agile Software Design using Pen and Paper"
Designing software before coding is outdated? True design is when software is grown guided by tests? Wait a minute! Maybe that's throwing out the baby with the bath. Maybe that's a common belief because of premise that should be questioned. Maybe that premise is you need to use load of UML and OOA/D for design.
But what if the premise is changed? What if you could use an approach directly leading from requirements to design, and then to code? What if the design was naturally retained in code?
There is hope that thinking before coding actually helps. Less refactoring due to well thought out structures gives you more time to actually implement features. Watch how this can be done with the cheapest tools available: pen and paper.
