Fear Driven Development

I see a couple of possibilities here:


I have seen the second of these at work. Often accompanied by exhortations to "keep on crankin'", we came to call this style CrankDrivenDevelopment.


Some of what you are thinking about may also be found at WorryDrivenDevelopment (HaHaOnlySerious). Cheers, --JasonNocks


FearDrivenDevelopment (FDD) could also be when you have an amount of LegacyCode and maintaining the code is hard because you don't know what unintended effects your changes have. When there is high coupling, changing method A suddenly made method B stop working and maybe that wasn't discovered until the code was deployed. A few live defects/bugs like that and you're suddenly practising FDD.


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