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Presented by Chris Hedgate on Oct 16, 2009
Agile Development: A Manager's Roadmap for Success
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Anybody work with female developers that look like the ones shown in those pics? I'd be smiling too.
Good presentation. But people care about code or they don't. In my experience you can't compel them to care. Just fire them.
Very good, great! it's simple, clean, has focus. All developer and team guy should see that.
Would have been great to see the live coding, the code shown in the preso material was jumbled and not readable. Otherwise this was a great insight!
Jason .. I got the presentation on his blog:
www.hedgate.net/talks/from-good-to-great-develo...
There are the resources, the presentation and the code available!
The presenter is suggesting is that constantly refactoring your code to reduce/avoid duplication helps to make it easier to maintain.
But sometimes the opposite can be true: "Copy, paste and modify" allows code to grow organically in the (different) directions that its uses might require (in the future).
Trying to force code sharing between several pieces of functionality can introduce several problems:
- Fixing a bug for one use can break another use
- Code has to be more complex to serve various uses
- More indirection makes code harder to understand
- Ongoing Refactoring can easily introduce bugs
I guess the interesting challenge is to know when several code pieces "have to do exactly the same thing" and therefore should share the code (in a common method or class) - as opposed to code pieces that look similar but should be kept separate and allowed to grow in different directions.
I like this presentation, simple and straightforward. I've been trying to write the clean code improve the design, but I am frustrated with my colleagues and my manager, they don't understand the importance of the clean code. This presentation give me a solution: first inspire them.
I also like the concept of 4-stage learning model. With another 3-stage model called shu-ha-ri which is introduced by Alistar CockBurn and a 5-stage dreyfus model which is introduced by Andy Hunt, right now I have a more deeper understanding for the learning models.
I posted my full comments in my blog:
code-dojo.blogspot.com/2009/10/from-good-to-gre...
Guys, what's the point of having such a great session when I can't see the code.. Through out Chris's demos I'm imagining what the code looks like & even imagining his changes..
Why not focus the cam on the screen/presentation when he does the demos?
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