This practical guide provides ten best practices to help team leaders create an effective working environment through key adjustments to their process. Joost Visser, Sylvan Rigal, Gijs Wijnholds and Zeeger Lubsen argue that poor software quality continues to plague enterprises of all sizes because of the process, rather than individual developers, and describe ways to improve this.

The book is a follow-up to their previous title, Building Maintainable Software, and the authors offer lessons based on their assessment of development processes used by hundreds of software teams. Each practice includes examples of goalsetting to help you choose the right metrics for your team.

Author: Joost Visser, Sylvan Rigal, Gijs Wijnholds and Zeeger Lubsen
Publisher: O'Reilly
Date: Dec 2016
Pages: 136
ISBN: 978-1491951774
Print: 149195177X
Kindle: B01MYZHEGP
Audience: Team leaders
Level: intermediate
Category:Methodology

• Achieve development goals by determining meaningful metrics with the Goal-Question-Metric approach
• Translate those goals to a verifiable Definition of Done
• Manage code versions for consistent and predictable modification
• Control separate environments for each stage in the development pipeline
• Automate tests as much as possible and steer their guidelines and expectations
• Let the Continuous Integration server do much of the hard work for you
• Automate the process of pushing code through the pipeline
• Define development process standards to improve consistency and simplicity
• Manage dependencies on third party code to keep your software consistent and up to date
• Document only the most necessary and current knowledge

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