This is the fourth post in a series that formed the basis of my 2017 DevCon session on Increasing Code Quality While Staying Lean. Check out the first post for an introduction to the series. These techniques have made a big impact at SeedCode and we hope you’re inspired to incorporate some of these into your own work. We Record our Debt In Documenting our Decisions, we talked about “creating…

This is the third post in a series that formed the basis of my 2017 DevCon session on Increasing Code Quality While Staying Lean. Check out the first post for an introduction to the series. This series describes techniques that have made a big impact at SeedCode and we hope you’re inspired to incorporate some of these into your own work. (Updated, May 2024) We Break Things into…

As we prepare to bring some new developers on board, it’s worth taking a look at a few of the things we do that make us successful. Sometimes we internalize these things and, not having had to explain them to anyone for a while, they kind of dissolve into habit. Or dissolve into habits we don’t think we need to practice anymore. Documenting our coding decisions is one of…

This series started as a few posts on our internal blog and eventually became my DevCon 2017 session, What Works – Increasing Code Quality While Staying Lean. I started these when we were bringing on a new employee and felt the need to document some of the reasons we were successful. With so much interest in the DevCon session, we’re now making the original posts public: this will be the first…