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Interpreting the Unwritten Rules - or Are They Guidelines?
Shane Hastie presents examples of how the most innocent of question or suggestion can send teams into a spin, and suggests a number of techniques to help create an environment for real communication.
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Scala: The Good Parts
Jack Singleton discusses how to improve code readability and maintainability in Scala, and how to be productive with Options, Immutability, and the Collections library.
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Estimates
Seb Rose wonders if estimates are worthwhile and discusses what business people – Steve McConnell, Demarco, Lister, Disraeli - have to say about this.
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Practicing at the Cutting Edge
Martin Thompson focuses on the evolution of Java in contrast with C/C++, covering the cultural challenges of performance limits and how to collaborate with industry experts and organize teams.
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Fighting Bit Rot with your Mind
Viktor Klang discusses approaches to writing software without building a complex, full of bugs and hard to maintain basecode.
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Why Agile Doesn't Scale (and What You Can Do about It)
Dan North believes Agile scales if teams achieve contextual consistency through shared guiding principles, a clear vision and a common understanding.
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TDD: Where Did It All Go Wrong?
Ian Cooper reminds what was Kent's original proposition on TDD, what misunderstandings occurred along the way and suggests a better approach to TDD, one that supports development rather impeding it.
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Applied API Design
Jon Skeet provides practical advice on designing APIs using immutability, separation of concerns and other principles, resulting in elegant and reusable code.
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Risk Management is Project Management for Grown-Ups
Tim Lister presents the advantages—and the dangers—of practicing risk management in an adult-like fashion, offering a process for tailoring an organization and discussing how it can grow up.
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How to Make the Most of Code Analysis?
Patrick Smacchia shares code analysis-related practices - structuring code, measuring code quality, automated tests, code contracts, reporting progress, trending- based on his experience with NDepend.
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Information Radiators - How to Heat Up Your Team
Martin L. Harbolt focuses on methods of providing data to a team to help them remain focused and maintain the rhythm necessary for success: KanBan boards, burn down charts and others, with examples.
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Development, Deployment & Collaboration at Etsy
Daniel Schauenberg provides insights into how Etsy develops software and what tools and processes they utilize to help them achieve their goals.