the developer journey

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The Developer Journey

Jorge Castillo Pablo Guardiolawww.twitter.com/guardiola31337

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1Before the

Code

Meetings

Efficiency● Prepare the meeting

● Action points

● Number of people involved

Product definition

Feedback● MVP & Iterations

● Product transparency

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Work with a user to think like a user

PM education

● Estimations will be required

● User Story definition

Estimation● Avoid hot estimations

● It’s your responsibility to work on them

● Estimations are not deadlines

Define contracts

● Discuss with involved people

● Coordination importance

2During the

Code

Professionalism

Accountability

Communication● Efficient on dailies

● Centralize and persist information

● Be polite

Code

Don’t fear change

● Boy scouting

● Proactiveness

Balance

● Perfect software doesn’t exist

● Working software is not enough

Ownership

● Learn to criticize and to be criticized

● Collective mindset

Tooling● Master (IDE, Shell, shortcuts…)

● Create (libraries, scripts…)

● Automatize

Testing

● Be clever

● Design testable code

● Test state instead of behavior

Feel safe

● Find bugs once

● Test harness for refactoring

● Immediate feedback

CI

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Test your software or your users will

3After the

Code

● Invest in your knowledge

● Who owns your career?

● Choose who you want to

work with

Conclusions

● Honesty

● Be humble

● Professionalism

● Empathy

● Collective ownership

● Don’t stop learning

● Be an example

● ...

Bibliography

● Pragmatic programer

● The Software Craftsmanship

● Clean code

● Working Effectively with Unit Tests

● Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code

● Debugging Teams

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Thanks!Any questions?