Summary

This chapter presented a design scenario where we saw a drastic change in business requirements for our nascent bicycle company as they made the brave decision to branch out and make wheelchairs to help those in need. As usually happens with these things, this change was not planned and happened at an inopportune moment. Strapped for time and inspiration, Kitty and Phoebe hired Tom, a wheelchair-bound software engineer who found himself aggressively unemployed following an executive meltdown at his previous employer.

Tom leveraged his expertise in software development, his personal experience, and his experience as a volunteer helping recently injured patients learn to cope with living in a wheelchair. He was able to bring a fresh perspective to the problem and began to design a solution that fits the manufacturing environment as well as the very real cost and resource constraints already extant at Bumble Bikes.

After about a week of analysis and design using UML, Tom...