01:41 – Dan’s Superpower: Optimization
03:26 – Are “Improve” and “Optimize” the same thing?
Kaizen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen)
Kaikaku (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaikaku)
Cost Accounting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_accounting)
17:20 – How is cost accounting affected by demographics and privilege?
33:34 – Team Alignment, Collectiveness, and Camaraderie
37:42 – Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-driven_development) vs Test-Driven Development (TDD) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development)
Write the executable specifications to guide development.
Then, delete most of them to optimize for documentation.
Don’t pretend that the code is tested; that’s quite different.
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— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) March 14, 2018 (https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/973987032094728192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
58:00 – Customer Empathy
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321503627/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0321503627&linkId=4a035427b40d7639d3ce1d4431eb7c49)
Reflections:
Jessica: Meeting a customer need = congressive.
Dan: Collaboration is how you get work done.
Jamey: Replacing “responsibility” with “duty of care”.
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