This is the slide deck presented at the ACE! 2012 conference in Kraków in June 2012. If you joined the talk use the slides for reference. If you haven't seen the talk and have a chance to see it again, allow yourself to be surprised by skipping the slides for now ;)
5. Acceptance criteria
☐ You can give examples of different
sources of bad code
☐ You have identified one new
reason for bad code you didn’t pay
attention to before
☐ You will consider a way to tackle it
84. Your job
1. Find some bad code
2. Trace it back to a difficult
conversation
3. How could you have done it
differently?
85. My example
1. Data transfer via FTP upload of text
files is really clunky
2. That’s the way things are done around
here. We never challenged this.
3. Ask to understand rationale behind the
decision, present viable alternatives
86. Follow-Up
• Catch me, stop me, talk to me
• Contact me on twitter @mfloryan
• Submit and discuss your ideas
bit.ly/ace-homework
87. The Remember Slide
• We’re not optimised for writing
code
• Our mental software is mostly
legacy code
• We don’t talk to each other
• We hide our emotions
90. Resources
• Hartford Civic Center Arena Roof Collapse
http://www.eng.uab.edu/cee/faculty/ndelatte/case_studies_project/Hartford%20Civic%20Center/hartford.htm
• Mariner 1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_1
• Ariane 5
http://www.around.com/ariane.html
• KLM flight 4805
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
• Air France flight 447
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
• 2003 North America black-out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_North_America_blackout
• The Kludge Tweet
https://twitter.com/jmeydam/status/143405066571886592
91. Picture Credits
• The Bismuth Cristals based on “Wismut Kristall und 1cm3 Wuerfel” photo by Alchemist-hp from Wikimedia
Commons under FreeArt license
• FIGURE 02.2 The Manifesto for Agile Software Development” from flickr by Jurgen Appelo from flickr
licensed under Creative-Commons-by-2.0 license
• FIGURE 02.3 The Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship” from flickr by Jurgen Appelo from flickr licensed
under Creative-Commons-by-2.0 license
• ”bushes from flickr by Rupert Ganzer under Creative-Commons-by-nd-2.0 license
• ”Cottontail Rabbit from flickr by Ken Slade under Creative-Commons-by-nc-2.0 license
• “Lion” from flickr by Angela Huxham under Creative-Commons-by-nc-sa-2.0 license
• ”the first standup photo from flickr by Karthik Chandrasekariah under Creative-Commons-by-nc-2.0 license
• Traffic light stacking photo from flickr by fabi42 under Creative-Commons-by-nc-sa-2.0 license
• “Tenerife747s” picture from Wikimedia Commons by Anynobody under Creative Commons by-sa-3.0 license
• The Difficult Conversations picture is by Olaf Lewitz from XP Days Benelux 2012 available on G+
• The Coaching Dojo picture is from Olaf Lewitz (By Ole) at XP Days Benelux 2012 available on G+
The remaining pictures are used under the fair use policy or available in public domain.
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