About AD

Key traits of Artless Development

Artless Development is:

• Loosely constrained: AD is vision and practice, but neither a theory nor a framework.
• Familiar: ideas behind AD are neither novel nor unique, but known and even actively applied in software engineering for a long time, some for decades.
• Ad-hoc: AD is not suitable for every project and/or team.
• Objectivity-first: AD challenges software artisanry by reducing impact of subjectivity and human factor on core project activities.
• Uniting: AD helps to marry requirements to deliverables by providing common ground for communication between stakeholders, analysts, QA, developers, and managers.
• Tooling-independent: AD doesn’t require any special fancy tooling and can work just fine with those common means used widely in development.
• Tooling-friendly: AD can be easily enriched with simple custom-built tools to achieve more transparency and visibility through automation.