Kent Beck 3x (Great idea that deserves our time)



The life of a product, a tech company, and a software system is a continuous process of decision making... and the best answer for each of these decisions is always "it depends". It always depends on the context and the phase of the product/company/system...
Lately, Kent Beck is presenting a framework to better understand and define this "needed" context information. This great proposal, which he calls 3x (explore, expand, extract), helps us to understand the trade-offs and make better decisions.

We can read as an introduction:

• https://ideas.riverglide.com/3x-explore-expand-extract-b9aad6402a5a

And for the original notes:

• The product development triathlon The concept description
• Comparing explore expand and extract topics in 3x Contains links about how to make decisions using this idea for different topics (estimation, economy, teams, etc...)

And there are some talks about this matter at:

• https://webinar.andela.com/thank-you-kent-beck-broadcast/ (the best talk in his opinion)
• Kent Beck on 3X - Explore, Expand and Extract
• 3X with Kent Beck

Any comment or discussion about this interesting concept is more than welcome :)