{"id":1957,"date":"2017-08-20T14:59:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T11:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/?page_id=1957"},"modified":"2018-06-25T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:01:59","slug":"evolutionary-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/evolutionary-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Evolutionary Design<\/h1>\n<h2>Why?<\/h2>\n<p>In a dynamic world we cannot assume we can design up front, because the context is changing faster and faster. Then we need to start with a minimum design and adapt it while growing and improving as we go. Evolutionary Design can help us.<\/p>\n<h2>What?<\/h2>\n<p>Evolutionary Design is an approach to incrementally grow a system while observing growth patterns and focusing on normalizing, optimizing and maximizing the growth.<\/p>\n<h2>Articles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/2018\/05\/what-is-evolutionary-design\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is Evolutionary Design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/2018\/05\/organizational-evolutionary-design\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Organizational Evolutionary Design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/2017\/06\/evolutionary-design-normalize-growth\">1. Evolutionary Design: Normalizing Growth <\/a><\/li>\n<li>(Soon) Evolutionary Design &#8211; Behavior Slicing<\/li>\n<li>(Soon) Evolutionary Design &#8211; Focus on Problem, not on Solution<\/li>\n<li>(Soon) Evolutionary Design &#8211; Transformations with Levels of Abstraction<\/li>\n<li>(Soon) Evolutionary Design &#8211; Transformations with Levels of Coupling<\/li>\n<li>(Soon) Evolutionary Design &#8211; Inductive and Deductive<\/li>\n<li>(Soon) Evolutionary Design &#8211; Selection Pressure<\/li>\n<li>(Soon) Evolutionary Design &#8211; Solution Navigation<\/li>\n<li>(Soon) 2. Evolutionary Design: Optimizing Growth<\/li>\n<li>(Later) 3. Evolutionary Design: Maximizing Growth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Video<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/2018\/06\/evolutionary-design-talk-newcrafts-paris-18-mai-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evolutionary Design &#8211; Evolve your Code like growing a live organism<\/a> (Paris 18 May 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Codecasts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a id=\"tddaiymi\"><\/a>TDD as if you Meant It:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/2017\/08\/tdd-as-if-you-meant-it-think-red-green-refactor-episode-1\">Episode 1: Think -&gt; Red -&gt; Green -&gt; Refactor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/2017\/08\/tdd-as-if-you-meant-it-i-care-about-behavior-and-not-about-representation-episode-2\">Episode 2: I care about behavior and not about representation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/2017\/09\/tdd-as-if-you-meant-it-refactor-primitives-to-concepts-episode-3\">Episode 3: Refactor Primitives to Concepts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/2017\/09\/tdd-as-if-you-meant-it-refactor-to-a-new-class-episode-4\">Episode 4: Refactor to a new Class<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/2017\/09\/tdd-as-if-you-meant-it-refactoring-to-builder-episode-5\">Episode 5: Refactoring to Builder<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/2017\/09\/tdd-as-if-you-meant-it-rsome-traditional-tdd-part-1-episode-6\">Episode 6: Some Traditional TDD &#8211; part 1 (design alternative to Episode 5)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/2017\/10\/tdd-as-if-you-meant-it-some-traditional-tdd-part-2-episode-7\">Episode 7: Some Traditional TDD &#8211; part 2 (design alternative to Episode 5)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/2017\/10\/tdd-as-if-you-meant-it-create-duplication-in-order-to-remove-it-episode-8\">Episode 8: Create Duplication in order to remove it<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/2017\/10\/tdd-meant-experiment-design-alternatives-stuck-episode-9\">Episode 9: Experiment Design Alternatives when Stuck<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/2017\/10\/tdd-as-if-you-meant-it-add-missing-tests-for-untested-branches-episode-10\"> Episode 10: Add Missing Tests for Untested Branches<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/2017\/10\/tdd-as-if-you-meant-it-refactor-and-clean-up-episode-11\">Episode 11: Refactor and Clean-Up<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/2017\/11\/tdd-as-if-you-meant-it-separate-production-from-test-code-episode-12\">Episode 12: Separate Production from Test Code<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/2017\/11\/tdd-as-if-you-meant-it-clean-up-before-next-triangulation-episode-13\">Episode 13: Clean-Up before next Triangulation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/2017\/11\/tdd-as-if-you-meant-it-refactor-but-in-small-steps-now-episode-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episode 14: Refactor, but in Small Steps Now<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/2017\/12\/tdd-as-if-you-meant-it-remote-live-coding-with-grenoble-episode-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episode 15: Remote Live Coding with Grenoble<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Remote Live Coding<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/2018\/01\/remotepairprogramming-ep-005-evolutionary-design-selection-pressure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RemotePairProgramming Ep 005: Adi &amp; Julian \u2013 Evolutionary Design with Selection Pressure (part 1)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/2018\/02\/remotepairprogramming-ep-006-adi-julian-evolutionary-design-selection-pressure-part-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RemotePairProgramming Ep 006: Adi &amp; Julian \u2013 Evolutionary Design with Selection Pressure (part 2)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Quotes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Evolutionary Design is like helping your plants grow, knowing what measures to take so they will be fruitful&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;When evolving the design of a system we observe growth patterns that simplify the resulting system&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;TDD as if you Meant It doesn&#8217;t guarantee full test coverage, you need to have tools and use them to check your work&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Taking only one decision at a time is Taking Baby Steps for Evolutionary Design&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFirst normalize, then optimize and only then maximize growth.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Evolve rather than change&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;If you are rigid, your software system will be rigid&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/drpeterscode.com\/bad-bot-exterminator-protects-wordpress-sites-from-hackers-cyber-ddos-dos-attacks.php\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/wp-content\/plugins\/dpabottomofpostpage\/apixel1x1.jpg\" ><\/a><table><\/table>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evolutionary Design Why? 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