What Kent Beck thinks about team size

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Creator of extreme programming and test-driven development, an original signatory of the Agile Manifesto, and the author of Test-Driven Development: By Example and Tidy First?

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1. 1 Jul 2026

   Our readingExploring, expanding and extracting are three distinct phases, and how you write code, who you hire and how you organise should be completely different in each.

   Their wordsSo how you write code, how you manage projects, who you hire, how many people, what the org structure is is completely different in the three phases.

   ↗How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industryyoutube.com 25th of 28 in this recording