Development Practices

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.

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

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.

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

Pair programming is a very effective development approach. But knowing when to pair is just as important as knowing how.

Writing software on your own doesn't have to be a bad thing. In fact, it has several distinct advantages, in the right situations.