The document discusses different perspectives on software craftsmanship. It provides quotes from various individuals that have differing views, from seeing it as a craft and skill to be nurtured, to those who are more skeptical of the term or think its importance is overstated. The document also presents some exercises for readers to reflect on their own stance towards concepts like quality, aesthetics, skills, and values related to software development.

1. You Are Not A
Craftsman
H. Alan Stevens

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9. Grow,
don't build,
software.Fred Brooks

12. I'm fundamentally uninterested in
whether software development
is a craft, an art, a trade, or a
dessert topping.
Martin Fowler

13. Software Craftsmanship
EXERCISE
•Software Craftsmanship means...
•Software craftsmen value...
•Developers who are not craftsmen value...
•We need a Software Craftsmanship
movement to...
•The purpose of a Software Craftsmanship
group is...

14. noun /ˈkraf(t)smənˌSHip/
craftsmanships, plural
Skill in a particular craft
- I admire his engineering skills and
craftsmanship
The quality of design and work shown
in something made by hand; artistry
- a piece of fine craftsmanship
crafts·man·ship

15. Craftsmanship is a self-
sustaining system in which
masters arrange for the training
of their replacements and where
status is based purely on the
work you've done. Dave Thomas

16. A collective form of
self-preoccupation.
Michael Feathers

17. Pete McBreen
In the end, software development
is a craft skill that subtly blends
art, science, and engineering.
It's not just a day job; it can be a
passion.

21. Being against craftsmanship is
like being against World
Peace, kittens or sliced bread.
David Harvey

22. Skepticism
is not
pessimism

23. Corey Alan Leon

24. Skill
EXERCISE
•The most important skill for a developer is...
•To improve my skill by 5% I would...
•If I ship crappy code...
•Sometimes, very skilled developers...

25. Great design does not come
from great processes;
it comes from great designers.
Fred Brooks

26. I can teach you anything
I need you to know,
except how to care.
H. Alan Stevens

27. My first proposal is that each
software organization must
determine and proclaim that great
designers are as important to its
success as great managers are,
and that they can be expected to
be similarly nurtured and
rewarded.
Fred Brooks

29. People with little
skill have created
plenty of successful
software.

30. Aesthetics

31. Martin Fowler
When you say 'craft' to people, they
imagine fine workmanship, leather
panelling, smooth joints - and consequently
higher costs. The word 'craft' reinforces the
tradable quality hypothesis
and that's a crippling disadvantage to
those of us who know that speed requires
good design.

32. Pretension

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36. The Design Stamina Hypothesis
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DesignStaminaHypothesis.html

37. Let’s not devalue
true craftsmen by
overstating the craft in
software development

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41. Monoculture

42. That dialog box in Windows that
asks you how you want your help file
indexed does not in any way, shape,
or form resemble what any normal
English speaker would refer to as
"craftsmanship." Joel Spolsky

43. Good Enough
EXERCISE
•At the thought of good enough I...
•The minimum acceptable code quality...
•Code that works is...
•If I don’t have schedule or budget to build it
right...

44. Optimalist

45. Minimum Viable Product

46. Building the right thing is
always more important
than building it right.
H. Alan Stevens

47. My biggest challenge as a
developer is coding the
right thing, rather than
coding the thing right.
Liz Koegh

48. I’m not going to mandate test-
driving anything
(which is a huge about-face from
what I was saying a year ago),
unless it will help.
Dan North

49. WAT?

50. Values

51. Humility

52. Sir Laurence Olivier
I think a poet is a workman.
I think Shakespeare was a workman.
And God is a workman.
I don't think there is anything better
than being a workman.

53. Communication
Over
Procedures

54. Companies are like families.
They are all dysfunctional.
The key is to find a loving one.
H. Alan Stevens

55. LOVE

56. Understanding is
more important
than coding.

57. the moon
It's like nothing
they compare it to
Unknown

58. Thanks For Listening!
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