Improving the Developer Workflow

Dennis Doomen | Principal Consultant | Aviva Solutions

A typical day at the office…

The product owner is upset…

Improving the Developer Workflow

Dennis Doomen | Principal Consultant | Aviva Solutions

USER STORIES & PRODUCT BACKLOG

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What you saw• Product Backlog for

tracking requirements• “As role I want what

because why”• Both technical and

functional• Storyotypes for scoping

The architect is accountable…

Query Service

Service Agent

DTOs

View Models

Views (XAML + C#)

Domain Entities

Repositories

Command Handlers

Database

Unit of Work Service Agents

Shell

Bootstrapper

Coroutines

Enterprise Library 5

Application Controller

Command Service

Commands

Application Services

Architecture

CODE METRICS & STATIC ANALYSIS

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What you saw• Use Code Metrics with

Excel• Choose Code Analysis

Rule Sets• Consider the Definition of

Done• Check out NDepend

The developer has to fix it…

REFACTORING & TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

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What you saw• Refactoring is essential• OneNote to keep track of

ToDos• Gated Check-in• Unit Tests to verify regression

His collegae has to review it…

PEER REVIEWSDEMO

What you saw• Reviews are essential• OneNote is a great tool• Visual Studio needs a built-

in review feature

Takeaways• Silver bullets don’t exist• Adapt tools to your

culture• Consider the butterfly

effect

Advice from the trenches• Avoid Notes C.P.• Avoid Unit Test C.P.• Check-in very often• Teams of 3-8 developers• Treat warnings as errors

Contact Me• dennis.doomen@avivasolutions.

nl• @ddoomen• www.dennisdoomen.net

Home• User Stories Applied – Mike Cohn• XP/Scrum from the Trenches – Henrik Knib

erg• Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided

by Tests – Freeman & Pryce• Clean Code – Robert C. Martin• C# 3.0/4.0 Coding Guidelines • Silverlight Cookbook• Fluent Assertions