073: Driven By Need, Guided By Example with Dan North
March 28th, 2018 · 1 hr 11 mins
About this Episode
01:41 – Dan’s Superpower: Optimization
03:26 – Are “Improve” and “Optimize” the same thing?
17:20 – How is cost accounting affected by demographics and privilege?
33:34 – Team Alignment, Collectiveness, and Camaraderie
37:42 – Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) vs Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Write the executable specifications to guide development.
Then, delete most of them to optimize for documentation.
Don’t pretend that the code is tested; that’s quite different.from @tastapod on @greaterthancode
— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) March 14, 2018
58:00 – Customer Empathy
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
Reflections:
Jessica: Meeting a customer need = congressive.
Dan: Collaboration is how you get work done.
Jamey: Replacing “responsibility” with “duty of care”.
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