073: Driven By Need, Guided By Example with Dan North - a podcast by Mandy Moore

from 2018-03-28T03:00

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01:41 – Dan’s Superpower: Optimization

03:26 – Are “Improve” and “Optimize” the same thing?

Kaizen

Kaikaku

Cost Accounting

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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Special Guest: Dan North.