Kent Beck

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

— Kent Beck

“If I have the same logic in two places, I work with the design to understand how I can have only one…

— Kent Beck

Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These…

— Kent Beck

“However, most defects end up costing more than it would have cost to prevent them. Defects are expensive when they occur, both…

— Kent Beck

“Trust energizes participants. We feel good when things work smoothly. We need to be safe to experiment and make mistakes. We need…

— Kent Beck

“If there are forms of testing, like stress and load testing, that find defects after development is "complete," bring them into the…

— Kent Beck

“If you have a month to plan a project in detail, spend it on four one-week iterations developing while you improve your…

— Kent Beck

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

— Kent Beck

“Some of the teams who read and applied the first edition of this book didn't get the part of the message about…

— Kent Beck

“Beta testing is a symptom of weak testing practices and poor communication with customers.”

— Kent Beck

“Responsibility cannot be assigned; it can only be accepted. If someone tries to give you responsibility, only you can decide if you…

— Kent Beck

Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.

— Kent Beck

“Folk wisdom in software development teaches that interfaces shouldn't be unduly influenced by implementations. Writing a test first is a concrete way…

— Kent Beck

“To achieve this his team had a sophisticated stress testing environment. When they wanted to improve the architecture they would first improve…

— Kent Beck

Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible…

— Kent Beck

“Cards on a wall is a way of practicing transparency, valuing and respecting the input of each team member. The project manager…

— Kent Beck

“The constraint has shifted out of software development. Here's a sad but repeated story: a development team begins applying XP, dramatically improves…

— Kent Beck

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

— Kent Beck

“the XP strategy is "design always.”

— Kent Beck

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

— Kent Beck

“Without the adjustment, you are working under a lie. Everyone knows it and has to hide to protect themselves. This is no…

— Kent Beck

I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!

— Kent Beck

A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.

— Kent Beck

“Don't make more versions of your source code. Rather than add more code bases, fix the underlying design problem that is preventing…

— Kent Beck

The community isn't nearly as afraid as it thinks it is.

— Kent Beck