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Talwrn: Laying the foundation

In a workshop, a team of 10 engineers working as fast as possible with agents accidentally re-discovered the blackboard design pattern. Read An accidental blackboard to hear how this happened....

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An accidental blackboard

This week, across Thoughtworks Europe, we took 10 engineers and put them in one room in our Barcelona office. The goal was to see how far and how fast we...

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Measuring Refactoring

The practice of refactoring has long been accepted as an effective tool to maintain code quality. The argument has always been that higher code quality allows an application to be...

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