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Gail Ollis
Bournemouth University
U.K.
Helping developers to
help each other
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Strategy
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Why did they do
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Gail Ollis
Bournemouth University
U.K.
Helping developers to
help each other
1.
Interviews
2.
Workshops
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Interviews
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Bad. Slight impact
Good. Slight impact
Good. Noticeable impact
Bad. Noticeable impact
Automates tasks
Includes symptoms
& how to reproduce
in bug reports
Fixes symptoms
without discovering
root cause of bug
Is good at helping
others
Is willing to discuss
suggestions about
their code
Espouses “one true
way”
Tends to “own”
code
Tends to work in
isolation
“I saw him create
a legacy system
in 3 weeks”
Is willing to ask
questions
Chooses identifiers which are
not succinct, meaningful &
distinct
“Vegetables”
“Wibble”
“Spock”
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Helping developers to
help each other
Workshops
Choose
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Explain
Follow
up
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Feedback
Recommend96%
“Stimulates interesting
discussions within the team,
not usually/traditionally talked
about.”
“Often talk is focused on just the
work to be done and not how to
go about it”
Reuse93%
“As a team we have no rituals
which attempt to improve
consistency”
Other uses• Other teams
• Appraisal
• Recruitment
“Could help get insights into
how interviewee would fit
with team working”
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How are
they thinking?
“What I believe this technique
offers that I had certainly not
considered before is choice”
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“We’re not thinking in
these ways!”
Give me a card
Or an email: gollis@Bournemouth.ac.uk
Or a tweet: @GailOllis
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each other
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