Conceptwhiteboard defense
Whiteboard Defense
An engineering practice standard proposed by Mitchell Hashimoto that requires engineers to be able to clearly explain, at any time, how the systems they deliver work, the design decisions behind them, and the potential risks involved. The standard explicitly separates the question of whether a system can be delivered from whether the engineer genuinely understands it.
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Sep 29
The whiteboard defense concept requires engineers to be able to explain at any time how the customer-facing systems they have delivered work and to defend their decisions, but does not require line-by-line familiarity with the code
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