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Using the Socratic Method in Pair Programming

Use the Socratic method in pair programming sessions to improve your understanding of your thought process, and grow a junior developer's skills.

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Document All the Things Before Handing Off a Maintenance Project

Before handing off a maintenance project, here are items you should document or get from the client or the previous person who worked on it.

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Code Quality Metrics Are Guides, Not Goals

Measuring your code quality with metrics can be a mistake. Instead, you can use the metrics as a guide — showing you potential opportunities to improve.

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Better Documentation Through Low-Fidelity Diagrams

Low-fidelity diagrams generate more accurately documented systems than complex master diagrams. Here's how I use them on software projects.

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Prepare Your Software for Growth: Create Boundaries

You can be prepared for system and team growth with preparation and a smart application of boundaries in your software project.

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Making Changes in a World of YAGNI

In many agile development projects, code will need to change frequently, and clean code that is easy to understand is easier to change.

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Ensure a Successful Continuous Improvement Engagement With These Activities

Regularly plan to do these activities to keep your project healthy between active phases of development in a continuous improvement engagement.

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Why & How to Tackle Internationalization at the Beginning of a Project

Writing code to support localization at the beginning of the project can ease the addition of new languages and regions later on.

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3 Tips for Handing Off a Large Project

Ensuring a new team can easily start doing effective work after you've handed off a project to them is important. Here are some ideas on how to do that.

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Embracing Nullability for GraphQL APIs

Build an API that expresses uncertainty with nullable fields, and your frontend implementation can use those APIs to handle less-than-ideal data.

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6 Things to Consider when Adding a New Project Dependency

Dependencies are liabilities, and not all of them are worth the risk. The next time you're deciding whether to add one, ask yourself these six questions.

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Three Ways to Develop, #3: The Swarm

Getting more than two developers together in a "swarm" is a valuable tactic that can improve context sharing and team decision-making.

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