Episode 2: Refactoring What it is, what it isn’t and how to factor it in your work

Techpoint Charlie

Welcome all to our new podcast, we plan to talk about different topics of the day to day tech life from our different perspectives and role.
This episode contains:
Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about refactoring.

• Topic: Refactoring: What it is and what it isn't, and how to factor it in your work
  • What is refactoring, REALLY?
  • What is refactoring to a Product Owner, to an Engineering Manager and common misperception in the industry?
  • How to plan for refactoring (should we plan for it even?)

Links:

• I'm a Product Developer
• Extreme Programming
• (Book) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• (Book) Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests
• No.Tarbut (Hebrew development-culture podcast)
• (Book) Marie Kondō: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Music credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It!
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Topic Introduction (Refactoring) (00:00:55)

3. What isn't Refactoring? (00:03:10)

4. Refactoring Book Reference (Martin Fowler) (00:03:53)

5. Extreme Programming Brief Intro (00:05:08)

6. MVP... (00:06:07)

7. What is Refactoring? (00:09:03)

8. When should we refactor? (00:12:40)

9. Refactoring is not Maintenance! (00:13:55)

10. Be a Product Developer! (00:16:30)

11. Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests (00:20:24)

12. Shout out to No.Tarbut (Hebrew podcast) (00:21:25)

13. The code we are ashamed of, what to do with it? (00:21:40)

14. What is Refactoring? What is Maintenance? What's the difference? (00:24:55)

15. How to plan refactoring? (00:25:52)

16. What's the motivation? (00:30:38)

17. Marie Kondo Book (00:33:30)

18. Raz admits for being problematic as well :) (00:34:54)

19. Summarizing and saying bye :) (00:38:38)