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Strategy for whole team switching tehnologies
Don't do this.
Speaking as a developer, this sounds great. We get to rewrite that horrible old spaghetti code from scratch! We get to paid to learn a new language! There's a mandate for quality, so ...
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How do you get your team to participate in quality assurance practices: Refactoring
I'm usually in the opposite position - when developers want to do so much refactoring that it starts to encroach on delivering business value. That being said, refactoring is a process like any other, ...
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How do you get your team to participate in quality assurance practices: Refactoring
It's good to care about the quality of your work, and refactoring (if well done) is a good way to provide quality but...
let's face some inconvenient truths:
Continuous refactoring is a learning ...
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Strategy for whole team switching tehnologies
The technology part of this question is not relevant to the problem. If the company has decided to make a change, then change is what you need to do. This also assumes that the case for change ...
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Strategy for whole team switching tehnologies
Below are some suggestions you may follow:
First of all communicate to upper management the high learning curve costs involved (time and money).
Perform specialized trainings. Hire trainers that know ...
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Strategy for whole team switching tehnologies
I have also encountered to this issue especially when technologies of web / app development changes and improves much more than before. To be honest, I work on Swift 3 iOS app for project management ...
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Strategy for whole team switching tehnologies
This is quite a sticky situation. Firstly, you say the "management decided". This isn't ideal and the decision should have been made by the team, without the management's involvement whatsoever.
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How do you get your team to participate in quality assurance practices: Refactoring
Refactoring is a skill, like any other skills you need to practise it often to learn it well and be confident with it.
Here is what I would do to increase their refactoring skills:
Execute the 4 ...
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How do you get your team to participate in quality assurance practices: Refactoring
Fear of refactoring implies unrealistic expectations in your work environment. I would work to remove that fear first of all. If you want an automated enforcement tool then you will probably find ...
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