Good Practices

good-practices.md

Good Practices

Code

• Write Clean Code
• TDD
• Test Pyramid
  • about microservices
• Pair Programming
• Organize your Tech Debt
• Security is non-negotiable

Data Driven

• A/B Test
• Use data to make decisions
• Don’t be data-driven, be data-informed
• Check for Bias at all time: both statistical and cognitive
• Datensparsamkeit: you don’t need to store everything to do big-data, be privacy-first
• Qualitative is as valuable as Quantitative

Delivery

• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery
• Feature Flags
• Trunk Based Development or Short-Lived Branches
• Code Reviews
• Don't rollout on a Friday afternoon

Monitoring

• Log as much as you can
• Dashboards
• Alerts
• Revert now, investigate later

Lean

• Deliver customer value, not product features
• Limit the Work in Progress
• User Stories should be as small as possible, but…
• User Stories should always deliver customer value

Agile

• Agile Manifesto
• Change your plans
• Collaborate all the time
• Do Retrospectives
• Products over Projects

Teams

• Horizontal Company, Vertical Teams
• Two-Pizza Teams
• Have an Onboarding Plan
• Co-located when possible, Remote First otherwise
• T-Shaped people, or even Paint Drip People

Communication

• Have a Feedback Culture
• Work on your communication skills
• Overcommunicate
• Team Building
• Manage expectations

Motivation

• Give people Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose
• Clear Ownership, shared Responsibility, and no finger-pointing
• Have Hackdays and Hackathons
• Be on the Flow: balance boredom and anxiety

Diversity

• Diversity allow us to be more creative, less biased, more empathetic and to build a better environment that everyone likes be in
• Meritocracy is a lie
• Fire toxic people