The 80/20 Of Software Development
The 80/20 Of Software Development
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About the Book
The 80/2o of Software Development is the manifesto of the smart and lazy programmer.
In any activity, there are clear tradeoffs when taking action. As a smart developer, you can structure your code, use your time, and deal with legacy code much more effectively.
- Enjoy your work.
- Get boatloads done in very little time.
- Create high quality code without writing thousands of tests that prove what you already know.
- Use certain language features to make sure that your code always remains easy to modify and understand.
- Avoid wasting your time creating features no one ever finds.
- Spend as much time as possible creatively solving problems.
- Future-proof your code with lazy evaluation, so it’s easy to get rid of dead code.
- Quickly Find elegant ways of solving problems
- Overcome high coupling and low cohesion
- Simplify processes, to get to the essence of things faster.
- Remove internal blocks to rapid progress within software companies.
- Use their time much more effectively by applying the 80/20 principle
- Get into creative flow much easier
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Table of Contents
- 1. The rhythms of software development
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2. Do Less Of What Doesn’t Work
- 2.1 The 80/20 Rule Applied To Software Development
- 2.2 Why Don’t We See This Intuitively?
- 2.3 Users Care about 20% of your Painstakingly Crafted Features
- 2.4 Each Bug Tells You Where 80% of Your Other Bugs Are
- 2.5 Your Features Spend 80% of Your Development Time Waiting in Queues Caused by One Bottleneck
- 2.6 So What Does This Mean?
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3. Prediciting the creation of 80/20 distributions: 80/20 over time
- 3.1 In the beginning, there was a strange attractor
- 3.2 Positive Feedback Loops
- 3.3 Negative feedback gets rid of what doesn’t work
- 3.4 Thresholds and viral change:
- 4. Chaos Theory is 80/20 Over Time
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5. The 80/20 of Developing Software
- 5.1 Work Smart
- 5.2 Programmers solve problems
- 5.3 Solving the critical 20%
- 5.4 The main tasks of a programmer
- 5.5 do one thing at a time
- 5.6 when working, focus on the details intensely, so you don’t need to otherwise
- 5.7 Challenges of Discovering/Evolving the “Right” Architecture
- 5.8 Pomodoro Technique for Programmers
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6. The 80/20 of Test Driven Development
- 6.1 Tests enforce flexibility, by keeping the cost of change low
- 6.2 Does TDD makes sense for you
- 6.3 Starting From Scratch
- 6.4 Doing Nothing At All, Nada, Zip
- 6.5 Interfaces
- 6.6 Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection
- 6.7 Pretending With Stubs and Mocks (Nanny, nanny, boo, boo)
- 6.8 Unit Testing
- 6.9 Automated Acceptance Testing
- 6.10 Why bother, then?
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7. The 80/20 Of Maintaining Legacy Code
- 7.1 Testy, testy
- 7.2 Is there a middle ground?
- 7.3 Inheritance is a poor cousin of interfaces
- 7.4 Why do interfaces work..better?
- 7.5 How does this help you resolve the “legacy problem”?
- 8. The 80/20 of Less Features
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9. The 80/20 of Project Slack (The 20% Time Paradox)
- 9.1 What
- 9.2 How
- 9.3 What If
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