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How to be a Professional Software Developer

MagmaLabs

Reading Time: 11 minutes Nowadays it is relatively easy to become a software developer, but being a truly professional one is not that simple. Learn here how to be the developer that every company and every client wants to have. Being a professional developer is crucial in the software industry. Apply Clean Code.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. There’s no objective measure of software productivity [Fowler 2003], but from experience, I’d estimate a 10-20% performance dip at first.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. Martin Fowler wrote an article in 2003 titled Cannot Measure Productivity. Our software would be easy to modify and maintain. We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. They tend to be passionate, senior developers. Lovability.

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AoAD2 Practice: Incremental Design

James Shore

Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. It’s Not Just Coding. Computers don’t care what your code looks like. If the code compiles and runs, the computer is happy.

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

Thus instead of copying lean manufacturing practices, lean product development practices must evolve from a deep understanding of fundamental lean principles adapted to a development environment. Lean Software Development: A Subset of Lean Product Development In 1975, computers were large, expensive, and rare.

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The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition

James Shore

Every week, we look at software engineering topics, and this week, I have a special show for you. I’m going to be reading from the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development. In the 1990s, software development was believed to be in crisis. They actually called it that: “The Software Crisis.” Introduction.

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