Corporate Coder

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted.  I’ve been leading a full time agile project, and have not had a ton of time to post.  I also went to central Florida over Christams, and hated to come back to the cold Midwest. 

While I can’t divulge specifics, I can recommend checking out Robert Martins book Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#  for some good practices for leading an agile project.  One practice that I believe helps coding tremendously, is the use of the war room.  This is the practice of having all project related information in one room.  Also, the team develops there, and customer meetings take place in this room.  If you haven’t tried it, I’d highly recommend you give it a try.  

The benefits, are increased communication between developers.  Our code is more consistent than in other projects.  When there is a tricky problem, you can talk with other developers.  And for those shops where there are many projects, going on, the focus on one project is helpful also.  I don’t have any statistics at this point to point to how this is better, but I hope to later this year.  If you have not utilized this practice, and your looking for a way to increase productivity, this is a quick way to accomplish it.