- Make it easier to change
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This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2023.
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Dave Thomas - Author of The Pragmatic Programmer @pragdave
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ABSTRACT
As developers, we live under a constant barrage of helpful advice, often in the form of rules with cute names. We’re told how to design, how to code, how to deploy, how to monitor: there are systems and rules for everything. How can we keep up? How can we know what’s good advice, and what’s bad?
Over time I’ve come to realize that just about every good piece of advice is actually a special case of something both more general and simpler. So, let me introduce you to the “one rule to rule them all.” […]
TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
02:46 Back to the 1990s
03:49 Classic waterfall
05:22 Theorem proving
06:17 100% test coverage
07:53 “Correct code”
11:53 Dave’s postulate No. 1
12:44 Change
16:01 Manifesto for Agile Software Development
20:22 Agile is Dead https://youtu.be/a-BOSpxYJ9M
25:14 Easy to change
26:13 How?
34:28 Dave’s postulate No. 2
33:57 Building intuition
35:09 Conscious & subconscious
42:21 Experience
46:22 Handwrite on paper
49:07 Make it easier to change
49:36 Outro
Download slides and read the full abstract here:
https://gotochgo.com/2023/sessions/2525
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