Chaos strategy

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The chaos strategy is an approach to software development that extends other strategies (such as stepwise refinement), and it works with the chaos model.

The main rule is always resolve the most important issue first.

  • An issue is an incomplete programming task.
  • The most important issue is a combination of big, urgent, and robust.
    • Big issues provide value to users as working functionality.
    • Urgent issues are timely in that they would otherwise hold up other work.
    • Robust issues are trusted and tested. Developers can then safely focus their attention elsewhere.
  • To resolve means to bring it to a point of stability.

The chaos strategy resembles the way that programmers work toward the end of a project, when they have a list of bugs to fix and features to create. Usually someone prioritizes the remaining tasks, and the programmers fix them one at a time. The chaos strategy states that this is the only valid way to do the work.

The chaos strategy was inspired by Go strategy.