the ten commandments of egoless programming
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The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming is about advices to follow on how to be a professional programmer, how to work efficiently with your team, being postive vs negative and construcive vs aggressive.TRANSCRIPT
2014
The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming
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Jeff Atwood’s Blog
The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming written in 2006…
… has originally been written by Jerry Weinberg in The Psychology of Computer Programming book in 1971!
… now we are in 2014 and it still makes much sense!
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1 Aaargh!Next time I’ll
wear my rubber boots!
“To truly succeed, you must fail. And you must fail a lot.” Auren Hoffman
Learn, laugh, and move on!
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Understand and accept that you will make mistakes1
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2 YOU!
Visual Studio -700
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You are not your code2
A code review will aim to reveal potential problems pretty early, so that it won’t go to production.
Those issues are about the code, not about you! Don’t take it personally!
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3Wow! I definitely
need to learn how he gets lightning out of his head!
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No matter how much "karate" you know, someone else will always know more3
Any colleague can teach you some new moves if you ask!
Always seek and accept input from others, especially when you think it's not needed
Think about pair programming!
“The only stupid questions are the ones you don’t ask. Ask any time.”
Uncle Bob Martin
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10
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Who did that? Please raise your
hand!
Oops!
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Don't rewrite code without consultation4
Make the difference between “Fixing” and “Rewriting”
Propose changes during code reviews.If you think it would be nice to change something in the code, go and see your colleague and apply the number 10 commandment
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5
Making such a bread is too
technical for you, you won’t
understand
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Treat people who know less than you with respect, deference, and patience5
Don’t reinforce the stereotype of the developer that has off-stage personality and is seen as demanding of his colleagues
Don’t act as if everyone knows what you know
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6 Can’t stand those constant weather changes anymore!
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The only constant in the world is change6
Isn’t what Agile is all about? ;-)
Learn to deal with options. Get rid of the ones that don’t work, try new things.
Accept changes as new challenges
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7How can you be
sure it’s the right direction?
Because I said so!
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The only true authority stems from knowledge, not from position7
Position is not knowledge!
Eat your own dogma food! Practice, cultivate knowledge!
Knowledge engenders authority, and authority engenders respect
“We are the innovators of our process. Learn what works for others, prove it for our self,
innovate beyond.”
Roy “Woody” Zuill
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Ok, ok!Stop this, you won!
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Fight for what you believe, but gracefully accept defeat8
Your ideas won’t win every time!Accept that they can be overruled.
(and even if you were right at the end, do not keep on saying « I told you so »)
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9I’d better do this myself… and ALONE!
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Don't be "the guy in the room."9
Don’t be “the coder in the corner”Working alone gets you out of the continuous team improvement process
“You’ve been misled: If you wanted a job avoiding people, personal relationships - software development is not it.” - Bob Marshall
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10
The one who wrote this piece of
code is the dumbest people
on earth!
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Critique code instead of people – be kind to the coder, not to the code10
Works well with number 2 & 4!
Don’t be aggressive, but constructive.Be positive, explain why this code should be changed.
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