YAGNI stands for You Aren't Gonna Need It and is a mantra associated with Extreme Programming.

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"YAGNI stands for You Aren’t Gonna Need It and is a mantra associated with Extreme Programming."

Fowler identifies YAGNI as an Extreme Programming mantra and traces the phrase to an early exchange between Kent Beck and Chet Hendrickson on the C3 project.

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Source title Yagni

Source authors Martin Fowler

Source year 2015

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