Enhance your students’ collaboration skills Pick your textbook, and other teaching materials, and then layer in the collaboration rules to level up the team skills.… Read More »Use the collaboration rules with your students
Start now. You can take it easy later. I was working on a the later stages of a bigger project. We knew that some steps… Read More »Start early. It always takes longer. Always.
Textbooks are not collaborative enough. A good textbook in my view is one with lots of useful information laid out in an accessible manner. It… Read More »Go beyond the textbook
Until people use your work it’s just fluff. I’m busy trying to get an app into people’s hands for testing. It’s so close, and so… Read More »Get the app in people’s hands
Teach people to integrate work and life together to avoid burnout. The hero and martyr culture is sadly being revived. This is not good. It… Read More »There’s more to life than work
Work together on the same task improves development I worked the last week with another developer on a project after some funding was approved. We… Read More »Pair to improve flow
Development without talking is painfully slow. Dave Farley recently asked on LinkedIn “What’s the one development practice you’ve seen make the biggest impact on a… Read More »Talk and listen to people
Automate repeats and explore options manually. I went too far in the last post on automated testing. I was in a hurry to get it… Read More »Some manual testing is necessary
Learn to collaborate instead of delegate for effective team work Students do lots and lots of solo work at university. This is to be expected.… Read More »Solo work is slow work
Teaching people to use pull requests for development is a disservice. GitFlow is used by many in industry, and because of this is taught in… Read More »GitFlow is not the solution, use trunk-based development instead