Software engineering
October 6th, 2008 • Comments Off on Software engineeringSo my personal opinion on software engineering is pretty straight forward. First of all it is important that the developers who write code are willing to improve themself by reading, blogs, articles, books (e.g. Code Craft or Beautiful Code – good reads).
The second idea is to restrict the work of the users. Provide coding guidelines and define processes. Everybody should know them by heart (and behave like they say). This will help that persons can work more and do not have to look up and ask many things (A knowledge base is always a good idea and even more important a todo/issue tracker so everybody knows what he is doing).
The next is to automate everything (another good tip from the Pragmatic Programmer book :-)). Last but not least do clear designs and document them (do not reinvent the wheel).
And if you behave work like this you can minimize the number of bugs you produce during development. You can also speed up your development! But always try to optimize (e.g. by tracking where you loose time…) your personal working behaviour and the global processses. Be Agile!
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