Episode 257: Myth Busting Best Practices That Drive All Of Us Crazy

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Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• No guest this episode

Recording date: Oct 12, 2023

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• Narwhal

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Resources:

• Readable Code Ready for Readable Code? - John Papa - YouTube
• Total Addressable Market
• Advantages of Data-Driven Decision Making
• The Seven Pitfalls of data driven estimation
• Effort Estimations are Wishful Thinking
• Story points estimation
• Gilding the Lily
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Is TDD dead?
• Unit, End to End and Integration testing. What is the difference?
• The optimal way to optimize code

Timejumps

• 00:28 Welcome
• 01:44 Finding the thing that you love and getting to do it for the rest of your life
• 03:59 Data is important but so is context
• 10:24 Sponsor: Narwhal
• 10:59 Tshirt sizing or estimations
• 18:46 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 19:51 Should we be testing?
• 26:48 Worrying more about tests than the feature
• 29:38 Does performance matter?
• 36:04 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.