Chapter 9 - Pragmatic Projects Flashcards

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Programmers are a bit like cats:

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Intelligent, strong-willed, opinionated, independent, and often worshiped by the net.

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What is a pragmatic team?

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A pragmatic team is small, under 10-12 or so members. Members come and go rarely, everyone knows everyone well, trusts each other, and depends on each other.

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What is the problem in deploying apps manually?

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Manual procedures leave consistency up to chance; repeatability isn’t guaranteed, especially if aspects of the procedure are open to interpretation by different people.

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What is part of the Pragmatic Starter Kit?

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  • Version Control
  • Regression Testing
  • Full Automation
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How do we know the users expectations?

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Ask them a simple question:

How will you know that we’ve all been successful a month (or a year, or whatever) after this project is done?

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