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 +====== The Five Ideals ======
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 +The Five Ideals summarized from the book "The Unicorn Project".
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 +----
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 +====== Locality and Simplicity ======
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 +  * Development teams should be able to make changes to their code base and deploy, without impacting or coordinating with others.
 +  * Decouple applications and create abstractions to achieve locality.
 +  * Simplify code bases through abstractions as well.
 +    * The easier the code is to reason about, the easier changes are, and the less it breaks.
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 +----
 +
 +====== Focus, Flow, Joy ======
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 +  * Remove distractions, dependencies, and other road blocks that prevent developers from doing development work.
 +  * With the above removed, developers will be able to focus and enjoy the work, producing better code.
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 +----
 +
 +====== Improvement of Daily Work ======
 +
 +  * Build time into projects/schedules to allow teams to address technical debt and architecture.
 +    * These are the brittle things that break in an application/architecture first.
 +  * Improve anything that impedes a developer from coding.
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 +----
 +
 +====== Psychological Safety ======
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 +  * Teams should be able to talk about bugs/problems in an application or architecture, without blame/backlash.
 +  * Blame-less postmortems after a production down event or major bug are critical to implementing actual fixes and preventing the same thing from happening.
 +    * This should be a learning experience for everyone, not a blame session. 
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 +----
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 +====== Customer Focus ======
 +
 +  * Core focus - everything a customer is willing to pay for.
 +    * Example: Web services, APIs, databases, storage.
 +  * Context focus - everything else.
 +    * Example: Any system that supports employees. (such as HR systems)
 +  * While context is important, don't let it take over focus from core customer concerns.
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 +----
  
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