Software Hygiene

What if your software project was like a commercial kitchen?

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1. Software Hygiene
2. Commercial kitchen
3. Commercial Kitchen Kitchen Work Cycle: • Start • Prep • Open • Service • Close • Clean down • End
4. Definition of Done Happiness, efficiency, safety, quality?
5. What if your software project was like a kitchen? Kitchen Work Cycle: • Start • Prep • Open • Service • Close • Clean down • End Project Work Cycle: • Start • Planning • Open • Develop & Release • Close • Refactor • End Mess?
6. At end of Service / Release • Head Chef: – “Boss, we've delivered all our covers” – “We now need to clean our kitchen...” – “… before next service.” • Tech Lead: – “Boss, we've delivered all our features” – “We now need to clean our code…” – “… before next release.” Visibility of mess? Short term solutions?
7. How can we be more Measurable? • Use static analysis? • Count bugs / failures. • Count yak holes. https://github.com/jamescooke/measurable-software
8. Benefits? • Refactor becomes valuable. • Risk as a result of environment decreased. • Potential to measure “tech debt”? • “Definition of done” improves.
9. Image credits • http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/wagamam a-launch-new-menu-open-10232237 • http://cheesenbiscuits.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-kitchen-table -at-bubbledogs.html • http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/Dirty--202036471.htm l