Deliberate Practice

Marcello Duarte@_md

Deliberate Practice

Deliberate practice is performing a task with the aim of increasing your mastering of one or more

aspects of the task.

Jon Jagger

“It takes elite performers a minimum of 10,000 hours of deliberate focused practice to become experts.” - Mary Poppendieck

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We are lousy self-evaluators

Experience is vital for learning

Practice without feedback is likebowling through a curtain – Geoff Colvin

Practice in Pairs

GAME OVER

START AGAIN?

Do it just for practice

Ways to do deliberate practice

• Pair Programming• Code Kata• Coding Dojo• Code Retreat

Kata: form in japanese.Series of repeated movements

Practice lower level: Key strokes Solve a problem

Throw the code awaySolve it again tomorrow

Coding Dojo

One keyboardTwo at a timeSensei guidesLearn from others

Code retreat: a day focused on software development

fundamentals (Corey Haines)

Code retreat

• Game of Life• Whole day• Chunks of 45 minutes• Test Driven• Facilitated (skills required)• Developers code in pairs• Start over at each session• Learn from the previous

Credits

http://www.flickr.com/photos/midweekpost/77690036/http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonsmith/2545054689/http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregorowicz/4846379791/http://www.flickr.com/photos/genista/263238087/http://www.flickr.com/photos/luisrivera/4206862457/

Special thanks to Jon Jaggerfor allowing me to use his content on this presentation

Thank you!

Marcello Duarte@_md