Steps, Value, and Change-Harvesting | #59

Let's talk about steps and value. Out in the world, folks make a lot of decisions involving these ideas, they reason about them. We want to make sure our reasoning is based on a thorough understanding of the implicit premises. What's a step? A step is a gap or space, in time and activity, in between two points, a Before point and an After point. At the Before point, a system is "ready". At the After point, a system is "ready". In between, during the step, the system is "unready". That idea, of ready or unready, needs a little elaboration. Remember that the change-harvester's vision applies to lots of different contexts where change is sought. And ready or unready really only have meaning in the particular context in which we're making changes.

Today, I'm going to limit my context to seeking changes in a codebase that is already shipping. Later in the thread, we'll wonder about different contexts, but for now, let's just narrow our focus.

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