Comments on: Embarrassment Driven Development

By: M Chu-Mire

M Chu-Mire — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:34:40 +0000

@M Chu-Mire /me pipes in Weird Al

By: M Chu-Mire

M Chu-Mire — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:31:59 +0000

I too work in a group that practices EDD-every-two (EDD ET) pronounced “Eat it!” and I have found it very useful. I wonder about the relationship between EDD and ADD.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:13:39 +0000

How about CDD – conference-driven development?

By: Kevin Dangoor

Kevin Dangoor — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:12:43 +0000

@JP: I definitely practice EDD + TDD, with the occasional bout of ADD

@Christopher and Marcus: Extreme programming’s short iterations kind of offer a bit of that, but it’s nothing like having a real in front of people demo that is regularly scheduled. Sounds like a grand plan. I also use screencasts as another EDD driver.

@Alexander: Very cool that you’re the originator of the term. I would certainly believe that, given the lack of google-fu for the term. I honestly wasn’t sure if it was you or Alan who had first said it to me, but your name was on that email that turned up

@cak: Actually, TDD does tell me how to do things (write failing test, write code to make the test pass), and EDD has everything to do with button placement, assuming the button in question is a blight on your UI.

By: cak

cak — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:41:30 +0000

Jean Paul, by TDD, i guess you mean Test-Driven Development, in which case the does not tell you about how you should implement anything either. And what does EDD have to do with button placement?? You really don’t understand the concept my friend, you should re-read the article.

By: Alexander Limi

Alexander Limi — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:15:38 +0000

EDD is very low-tech, but as Mr. Calderone points out, it’s what leads to that great level of polish close to the end of a release cycle. It’s definitely not really a project management technique, but more of an interesting, alternative way to define passion for your product. It always comes down to whether you’re passionate enough to put in the extra two days of obsessive tweaking near the release date.

PS: I think I coined the term without any outside influence, but you never know.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:33:44 +0000

Where I work right now, our department (products dev, we’re about 14 people) ends every week with a demo for the rest of the company (consultants, sales, etc) of the new features we’ve completed this week. Great motivational tool, carrot and stick and all that.

By: Christopher Blizzard

Christopher Blizzard — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:11:08 +0000

At my last place of employment we had something really neat. You had to demo something every two weeks in front of everyone else. This meant that everyone was always interested in producing something in short time frames and the EDD was always a factor.

What a great name!

By: Jean-Paul Calderone

Jean-Paul Calderone — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:03:31 +0000

I think EDD and TDD/BDD/etc inhabit slightly different spaces. EDD is a good project management level tool. It tells you you should really get rid of that button, or fix some input form to accept unicode, etc. It doesn’t tell you anything about how you should technically go about doing any of those things, though. So EDD combined with a technique from the TDD/etc group is probably better than either alone.