Coaching
I offer more personalized coaching and consulting one-on-one or in small groups focused around your project and questions, including:
- Requirements, User Stories and Acceptance Tests: Defining what you need to get started on a project can be a challenge. Driving requirements from acceptance tests can be a powerful way to articulate each piece of functionality. You’ll get tips, tricks and tools for defining a living specification that won’t go out of date as your code changes.
- Design: Drawing on the wisdom of design patterns, refactoring and testing we design solutions that are easy to understand, maintain and extend.
- Consensus on Coding Standards and Best Practices: There are a handful of simple practices that can be used to build software that is easier to maintain and extend but some of these practices are not generally known. I review this information with every team I work with and they are always thankful that I did.
- Planning, Assessments, Reviews and Evaluation: Often an outside perspective can be helpful in reviewing designs and implementations. I’ve done so many design and code reviews that I can often immediately spot patterns in problems that have eluded others. By focusing on what can be encapsulated I can help you discover better ways to design your software.
- Tools: Do you need developer tools, version control or collaboration technology? I’ve worked with many of them and can help you find tools to meet your specific needs.
- Triage and Debugging: More than an extra set of eyes I know the kinds of challenges .NET and Java software can have. More often than not I’ve been able to significantly help teams in a short period of time locate bugs and design flaws and help them get back on track to meet deadlines.
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