Document Engineering Management Test-Driven Development 
James Shore
JANUARY 10, 2025
We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. They also love test-driven development, pairing, continuous integration, and evolutionary design. They tend to be passionate, senior developers. Our engineering managers are at the forefront of that effort. And were an XP shop.
James Shore
APRIL 27, 2024
For exaqmple, “Basic Design” includes these skills: Decompose problem into tasks Class abstraction Mental model of your team’s codebase Mental model of a complex dependency Campsite rule Fail fast Paranoiac telemetry Evaluate simple dependencies (There’s a document that explains each skill in more detail.)
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James Shore
AUGUST 19, 2024
As we’ve put it into practice, it’s definitely been a lot of work for managers to fill out the spreadsheets. For managers that know their employees well, the work’s been tolerable. mostly a matter of documenting what they already know. For managers that are new to their team, it’s been tough.
Modus Create
AUGUST 24, 2021
Bear in mind that fixing bugs without running tests could also introduce new bugs into the system. Well-written unit tests act as documentation for your code. Any developer can quickly look at your tests and know the purpose of your functions. Unit testing is an integral part of extreme programming.
LaunchDarkly
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
And you figure it out later when you find your architect under printed Confluence documents. We’re all familiar with Test-Driven Development, right? We want to try Retention-Driven Onboarding. Gallagher: And the other key component of this is Employee-driven onboarding. Don’t pretend like it is.
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