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team++

Making your team work better together

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Developer

Lego enthusiast

Baker

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<Dark Rum & Diet Coke[

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Technical Project Manager

LOVEFiLM

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Not EVIL!

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Previously?

Lead Developer,

BBC Homepage

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TERROR

AT THE

CASTLE!

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THE ZOMBIE THATWOULD NOT DIE!

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We wanted better

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This

isn’t

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rocket science

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Continuous Peer Review

http://thecodetrain.co.uk/2011/01/dev-checks/

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Before any task is moved into test, a developer who didn’t work on it must say that they are happy with how it’s been completed.

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After every task, Ask questions

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Does anything worry you?

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Go back into development if necessary

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Sometimes people do things wrong

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People die get ill

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Peer review helps the team

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Standards are Good

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Spaces,not tabs

K&R braces

Consistent spacing

Documentation

PHP_CodeSniffer

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Break the Standard?Break the Build.

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Unit Tests

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Functional Tests

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Regression Tests

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Break the Tests?Break the Build.

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“For every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before”

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Perform Pair Programming

(where appropriate)

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Enhance Progressively

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Don’t work out of hours

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Bring baked goods

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Socialise

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Life is Good@NeilCrosby #lwsteam

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LOVEFiLM is hiringneil.crosby@lovefilm.com

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Any Questions?

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