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Principles vs. Practices
What should stay fixed, and what should flex to fit your team.
LDD is built on principles that shouldn't change:
- Learning is the unit of progress.
- Unvalidated decisions are costly.
- Thin slices are more valuable than big specs.
- Someone must orchestrate the learning loop: designing experiments and interpreting results.
But the practices (how you run loops, how often, what tools you use) should adapt to your context. A regulated financial services company needs different traceability practices than a solo builder shipping a SaaS app. A ten-person product team needs different cadence than a two-person startup. LDD should flex to fit.