Every month, someone new asks me the question, ‘How do I convince my manager to let me refactor?’ While it’s true that a manager shouldn’t constrain the programmer’s plans to deliver high-quality code, the fact remains that some organizations allow their managers to assert this level of micro-control. In this talk I outline a set of models for justifying evolutionary design with basic economic concepts that relate directly to delivering, planning, and funding software projects. This talk will provide you with a solid argument to meet any skeptic’s rational objections to writing tests first and letting both low-level design and architecture emerge.

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