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Programmer Anarchy For more detail here is link to a presentation Fred George gave, and a link to the slides. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk-CF7klLdA http://gotocon.com/dl/goto-amsterdam-2011/slides/FredGeorge_ProgrammerAnarchy.pdf Company: Forward Fred George’s experience of Programmer Anarchy has been at an internet advising company called “Forward” where they got “40 geeks together” and instituted the new methodology. They work for a number of high profile clients, including “Search” a big energy company. And they report not only happy programmers but also some impressive statistics:...

Video: Implementing Programmer Anarchy - Fred George Implementing Programmer Anarchy - Fred George (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIxHmsWCd7g) story tyranny requirements hierarchy story level “Interact with customer on story level” Kent beck scrum ppl micromanage: task level standups: who is doing which task feature level: much more efficient what do you want to accomplish? ok, get out of our way I know how to get this thing done I will come ask questions when I need more information...

Video: The Secret Assumption of Agile - Fred George Video: The Secret Assumption of Agile - Fred George (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Efy4RB_kw) tasking cycle duration of steps simple design (Model_ 4 rules of simple design) book: refactoring apply refactoring Book_ Refactoring to Patterns - Joshua Kerievsky apply patterns learn to write in this style learn + apply can learn on the job (if the team is working this way)...

Video: Phoenix a Web Framework for the New Web - José Valim Phoenix a Web Framework for the New Web - José Valim (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk3icU8iIto) client socket server socket server channel

Tidy First? - Kent Beck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFFY9Zor6zw) 2 types of people: waiters and changers 2 relationships: - waiter - changer - changer - changer (breaking api changes) -– 4 levels of insight into design there’s changes there’s 2 types of changes: structure & behavior there’s a sequence, which you can plan (“I can change this structure, so I can do that behavior change easier”) experiment: make pull requests with only behavior or only structure, get into prod user visible changes at the end of the sequence...

3x Explore, Expand, Extract - Kent Beck ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlJN6_4yI2A ) Question, to be asked early on. small investment - big investment (—) return on investment (red line) waterfall resurgence let’s first do a market survey let’s do a business model refinement let’s then develop QA new product development with waterfall large investment, small chance of payout Question: what do you have to lose? first question I need to ask, to decide how to operate...

Video: Beyond Agile Programming @ Startup Lessons Learned - Kent Beck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4qldY0g_dI)

Video: Continued Learning the beauty of maintenance - Kent Beck (https://youtu.be/3gib0hKYjB0)

Making Architecture Matter - Martin Fowler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DngAZyWMGR0) All opinions stolen from Ralph [ ] whitepaper on my site definition 1 “architecture is a social thing” usually imperfect understanding definition 2 first you need to figure out what is important What do I need to keep at the front of my head Statements: Counters: moral: we need to be professional -> if you take that line, you’ve lost -> craftsmanship vs economics => economics wins what is quality - assumption: trade-off between quality and cost, like with things we buy !...

Not Just Code Monkeys - Martin Fowler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E3xfR6IBII) Where are we going to apply our talents Is what we are doing useful? eg. women 50% of population underrepresented groups are pushed away “the behaviour you walk past, is the behaviour you accept”