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Software Behaviorby Joost van der Zwan
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Framework · Practice · from Chapter 14

Authorship Practice

The six commitments that constitute the practice of product authorship over time: standards, point of view, taste, responsibility, consistency, reflection.
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The framework

Fig. · Authorship Practice
  1. Standards: What quality bar, evaluation practice, and regression standard do you hold even when nobody hands them to you?
  2. Point of view: What do you believe good software behavior should make possible?
  3. Taste: What do you choose, refuse, simplify, or slow down because it improves the work?
  4. Responsibility: Which consequences and evaluation failures do you accept responsibility for in the product you helped shape?
  5. Consistency: Where do your standards show up repeatedly enough to become recognizable?
  6. Reflection: How do you inspect your own decisions and make your practice sharper over time?
  1. 01

    Standards

    What quality bar, evaluation practice, and regression standard do you hold even when nobody hands them to you?

  2. 02

    Point of view

    What do you believe good software behavior should make possible?

  3. 03

    Taste

    What do you choose, refuse, simplify, or slow down because it improves the work?

  4. 04

    Responsibility

    Which consequences and evaluation failures do you accept responsibility for in the product you helped shape?

  5. 05

    Consistency

    Where do your standards show up repeatedly enough to become recognizable?

  6. 06

    Reflection

    How do you inspect your own decisions and make your practice sharper over time?

4 · Do

How to use it · Practice note

Use as a practice note before the next project: name the commitment you will hold, the artifact that proves it, and the cost of holding it.

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The Product Architect · Authorship Practice

Framework · Practice