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Broken Window Policing

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- Broken Windows Policing

Broken Window Policing¶

A single broken window creates a sense of disorder in a neighborhood
If small problems are willfully ignored for a long time, they can slowly deteriorate the "psychology" of a project¹

Thomas, David, and Andrew Hunt. The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition: Journey to Mastery. Second edition. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2019. ↩