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Making the Business Case for Best Practices

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You've told your organization that it should adopt software development best practices. Learn how to prove it.

A lot of developers like to stump for so-called "best practices." We should do TDD. We should be Agile. We should use an IoC container. But what defines a "best practice?" What does this mean? Unless the practice helps the business' bottom line, it's hard to justify. Organizations need to make money; they don't exist to pad developers' resumes. This course will help you evaluate whether or not various practices make sense for your business, and help you justify them if they do by making a bottom-line-based argument to important stakeholders.

Syllabus

  • What Is a "Best Practice," Anyway? 10mins
  • And What Is a Business Case? 38mins
  • Justifying Coding Practices 57mins
  • Justifying Code Inspection Practices 52mins
  • Justifying Testing Practices 60mins
  • Justifying Meta-Coding Practices 35mins
  • The Politics of Change 27mins

Taught by

Erik Dietrich

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