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AoAD2 Practice: Pair Programming

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Developers, Whole Team. Do you want to waste half your time sitting in sullen silence watching somebody else code? Their job is to code.

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AoAD2 Practice: Slack

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Even the best teams inadvertently accumulate technical debt (code that slows you down). If you see code that’s no longer in use, delete it.

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How to be a Professional Software Developer

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 11 minutes Nowadays it is relatively easy to become a software developer, but being a truly professional one is not that simple. Learn here how to be the developer that every company and every client wants to have. Being a professional developer is crucial in the software industry. Apply Clean Code.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. There’s no objective measure of software productivity [Fowler 2003], but from experience, I’d estimate a 10-20% performance dip at first.

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AoAD2 Practice: Incident Analysis

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Despite your best efforts, your software will sometimes fail to work as it should. Despite your best efforts, your software will sometimes fail to work as it should. In reality, failure is a consequence of the entire development system in which work is performed.