ease
- The condition of being comfortable or relieved.
- Freedom from pain, worry, or agitation: Her mind was at ease knowing that the children were safe.
- Freedom from constraint or embarrassment; naturalness.
- Freedom from difficulty, hardship, or effort: rose through the ranks with apparent ease.
- Readiness or dexterity in performance; facility: a pianist who played the sonata with ease.
- Freedom from difficulty, hardship, or effort: rose through the ranks with apparent ease.
- Readiness or dexterity in performance; facility: a pianist who played the sonata with ease.
- Freedom from financial difficulty; affluence: a life of luxury and ease.
- A state of rest, relaxation, or leisure: He took his ease by the pond.
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
Ease at Work
Kent Beck (from Agitar Software and of JUnit, Extreme Programming and Test-Driven Dvelopment fame) talks about Ease at Work, it's a 7-part video series, so I'm showing them all to make it easy for you (BTW, InfoQ has a great summary of this talk). Here is a reminder of the range of values we can find in the word 'ease', with the ones Kent is using highlighted:
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