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Best Practices of a Software Craftsman. The skills it took years to learn to need Devlin Liles Improving Enterprises. Software Craftsman. What does it mean? What do they do? How is that different?. Be Professional and Unflinching. Have a minimum level of quality that is acceptable - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Best Practices of a Software Craftsman
The skills it took years to learn to needDevlin Liles
Improving Enterprises
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Software Craftsman
• What does it mean?• What do they do?• How is that different?
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Be Professional and Unflinching
•Have a minimum level of quality that is acceptable•Be Prepared to say “No” to people that can fire you•Friends don’t let friends code ….
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Drunk
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Without Tests
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Without Requirement
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How do we accomplish this?
• Treat your code like a child
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How do we accomplish this?
• Be a gamer at heart ( not the weird ones that never leave the house )
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Deploy, Deploy, Deploy
• Deploy Early, Deploy Often, Then Deploy some more• When you are done with that, use Robots to Deploy for you
while you sleep!• It is the only way to avoid….
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How do we accomplish this?
• Do less work
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How do we accomplish this?
• Don’t manage the automated process
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Keeping up
• Technology• Skills• Changes in the Industry• How do we…
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Keep Up
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Find how you learn
• Reading• Listening• Doing• Etc…
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Take Time
• Schedule it, and don’t change that
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Tools we have talked about
• Nuget – http://www.nuget.org/ • BuildMaster - http://inedo.com/buildmaster/overview• PluralSight - http://www.pluralsight.com/training • Ncrunch - http://www.ncrunch.net/