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A bit religious, but honest. Just needs to dial down the TDD-preaching - it's not a silver bullet.
by M8 11y ago
A bit religious, but honest. Just needs to dial down the TDD-preaching - it's not a silver bullet.
- shele 11y agoA tale: http://alistair.cockburn.us/Thinking+before+programming http://alistair.cockburn.us/Thinking+before+programming
- pjc50 11y agoThe "mob programming" was the thing that made it hard to take seriously. All the downsides of meetings (bikeshedding, grandstanding, high (time x money) consumption) without time and space to think. I currently work with what https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9413117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9413117 calls "implied pair programming": code reviews before commit. But the rapid build and rapid deploy is so incredibly far from what's achievable here (C++/WinCE land). A quick build takes about 15 minutes. A full all-target-platforms build takes about 3 hours. It's then merged with releases from other teams and handed to QA. Customers are using releases up to three years old.