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Luke Campbell« luke.s.campbell@gmail.com » |
For The Win
There is nothing quite like that thrill, when you've been hacking away at a problem for a while and in that singularity when everything comes together in one beautiful compilation. Working with multiple people, in multiple teams on multiple modules can be extremely frustrating and incredibly challenging. I offer a few observations that have aided me in the past couple of weeks.
Choose an arbiter for your team.
- Have someone who can be the focal point to interact with outside members if possible.
Use git
- Git has saved countless hours of pain and suffering.
- Git has also CAUSED several hours of pain and headache because of our lack of understanding on how to use it best.
Set short achievable goals
- Make frequent short term achievable goals that move in the right direction
- Start with unit testing / TDD
- After the pieces are implemented, start focusing on integration and integration testing.
Don't run independent ops
- Going off on your own without anyone knowing what you're working on can truly be miserable for everyone!